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^OGNOM/c^ 
REGISTER. 



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For recording the indications of 



THE HEAD, FACE, TEMPERAMENT 



AND 



OTHHR ORGANIC CONDITIONS, 

ARRANGED FOR TK^'USE OF PHYSIOGNOMICAL EXAMINERS 



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BY 



J. A. DENKINGER, M- D. 

Prastical Physiognomist. 



BOSTON : 
J. A. DENKINGER, M. D., 5 HOLYOKE ST. 
1895. 



\RACTHR Rl-ADINUS 



ROM PHOTOGRAPHS 



iueation of the character oi* tl 

ad it impossible to visit us in person. In those cases, 

honld be sent. To secure the best results by this method, 

lis should be sent, a full front and a side view. Tintypes 

mswerthe purpose. If only one view is obtainable, a three-quarter 

should be sent. In all cases the hair should be brushed smooth to 

lead, so as to enable us to form a correct estimate of the shape of 

the head. Also send the following measurements : Distance between 

openings of the ears over crown of head ; distance between root of 

and the projection at base of back head (occipital spine), also the 

circumference of the head. In some cases it may not be convenient or 

possible to obtain likenesses and measurements as directed, as in cases 

where persons desire a delineation of the character of an acquaintance 

or friend or employe or prospective partner. In such cases send such 

pictures as you have and we will do the best we can with the same. 

Persons about to select a trade or profession and who desire to learn 
what they can do best ; those who contemplate the selection of a life- 
companion and would like to know what Phrenology and Physiognomy 
would say as to their adaptation in temperament and disposition, and 
those who would like an unbiased and truthful delineation of the real 
character and disposition of some person that they are interested in, may 
send us their likenesses and expect a clear and faithful description and 
plain, candid advice. 

I have written hundreds of delineations of character, etc., in this way, 
and as far as I know, with invariable success. 



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Sooner or later — though they may seek to give it the lie and apparently 
succeed for a long time, half a lifetime perhaps, men and loomen ore all 
true to their physiognomies— sooner or later they prove llmi the index 
Nature ho* written upon their features is not a false one Men lie, but 
Nature docs not — they conceal, but she tells the truth. — Ouida. 



INDICATIONS 



OF TI1H 



Head, Face and Temperament 



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showing the relative powers of the various impulses ;m<l intellectual 
qualities, as well as physiological conditions, and embracing directions 
for the cultivation and restraint of the faculties of the mind and other 
conditions treated. 

AS GIVEN BY 



At (7 1895 f 

Date Is!) 



Copyright, 1895 
By J. A. DENKINGER, M. I>. 



PRESS OF J. R. RUITER &. CO., BOSTON, MASS. 



The Physiognomical Register. 



I think that I voice the opinion of all practical phrenologists 
and physiognomists when I make the statement that all printed 
charts (or registers, as I prefer to call them) published up to 
date, are exceedingly unsatisfactory, not only to the examiner, 
but to the critical consultant as well. Mr. Nelson Sizer. the 
veteran examiner of the Fowler and Wells Co., has even been quoted 
as saying, that if the matter rested solely with him, he would not 
mark another book chart; and, unless the registers thus far pub- 
lished can be improved upon, it would indeed be better if 
examiners were to discontinue their use. 

One of the objectionable features of all the registers, both large 
and small that I have examined is, that not satisfied with pre- 
senting tables showing the relative power of mental and physical 
conditions along with advice as to the cultivation and restraint of 
the same, the attempt is made to give an approximately correct 
printed description of the character of the subject examined. The 
result is simply absurd. As an example, take the following des- 
cription of Benevolence {large), in what is probably the most 
generally used phrenological register used in this country : — " You 
are veiy tender, generous, and kind-hearted ; ready to sympathize 
with suffering and to relieve want, to the extent of your means ; 
prefer to suffer yourself rather than to see others suffer ; are 
charitable, forgiving, and merciful ; a "good Samaritan," and, in 
this respect, a true follower of Him who " went about doing good." 

All the printed registers attempting description of individual 



I / HE /•// VSIOGNO MICA L REGISTER. 

character in the " You are so and so style'' are filled with just 
Mich cut-and-dried paragraphs as the above. 

It is true the printed registers referred to are full of apologies 
as to the impossibility to delineate character correctlj in this 
manner. They make reference to " the almost numberless com- 
binations of which the temperaments and mental faculties (to say 
nothing (^\ the ever-varying physiological conditions involved)? 
are susceptible/' and advise the consultant to work out these 
combinations. " considering well the temperaments and the modi" 
fications which must result from the action of one faculty upon 
another, and especial)}' the influence of the predominating group 
and the leading organ.'" 

Now, this is all very well and very true, but what of this oracular, 
" You are this and you are that," if it does not apply (and how- 
can it i to the individual, what need of a description that does not 
cribe — correctly, or, if you will have it so, not even approxi- 
mately correct. 

In my opinion u the almost numberless combinations of which 
the temperaments and mental faculties and ever-varying physiological 
conditions prevent even an approximately correct description of char- 
acter by means of a printed chart, even if a scale of i to ioo, 
instead of i to 7 (as generally used) were substituted. 

1 am further of the opinion that all that a printed register 
should contain is : 

1. 'Tables arranged in scales, showing the relative power of 
the different mental and physical conditions. 

\ more or less complete definition and analysis of the 
faculties and other conditions estimated. 

3. Advice as to how to cultivate, restrain, or regulate the same. 

|. Tables showing marriage and business adaptation. 

Lo describe personal character, etc., a careful oral or written 
analysis, which enables the examiner to take into consideration 
the ever-varying conditions previously mentioned, is necessary; 
,i printed register is at best only an adjunct to a carefully written 
delineation of character. 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 5 

Another objectionable feature of existing printed registers is 
in point of the scale used to show the relative power of the 
various faculties and other conditions. 

In Geo. Combe's time, when printed phrenological registers 
had no existence, the scale of i to 20 and i to 100 was used in 
phrenological literature to "describe developments." At the 
present time most American and English phrenologists, following 
in the wake of the Fowler Bros., use the scale from 1 to 7, which, 
with its divisions and subdivisions into halves and plus and 
minus, means a scale of 1 to 25. Now I think that practical 
phrenology has not reached that degree of mathematical perfec- 
tion to permit the use of so large a scale for practical purposes, 
and I think that a scale ranging from 1 to 5, without divisions 
and subdivisions is far preferable, especially as it would have the 
desirable effect of enabling all examiners of ability to mark a 
register, figuratively as well as practically alike. 

In accordance with the views expressed in this article, the 
pages of the physiognomical register are not marred by the more 
than useless attempts to describe personal character in a printed 
book, and a scale ranging from 1 to 5 without subdivisions is sub- 
stituted for one ranging from 1 to 25. 

The classification of faculties used in this register is a modi- 
fication of the classification first proposed by Mr. Stanley J. 
Grimes, one of the most original and critical of the pioneers of 
practical phrenology in America. The rule which should be our 
guide in a scientific and practical classification of the faculties, is to 
group those faculties which bear the nearest affinity and analogy 
in function. I do not claim that the classification used in this 
register is perfect or cannot be improved upon, but it is certainly 
superior to the divisions made by Spurzheim, Combe and the 
Fowlers. In addition to the tables found in all registers, this 
register contains a special table designed to state the indications 
of special features of the face, also a special table showing the 
physical indications of the head, face and rest of the body. 

The tables on physical and mental adaptation in marriage in 



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this register are also more complete than in registers published 
heretofore. > 

In the text proper the analysis and definition of the faculties 
will also be found more complete than in other registers, and the 
same is true of the text on the cultivation and restraint of the 
various faculties and other organic conditions. 

I would advise examiners using this register to leave unmarked 
or mark (?) all conditions the indications of which are at all 
obscure or uncertain. 

( )ne mental condition generally treated of in phrenological work s 
has been omitted in this register — the so-called faculty of Con- 
jugality, — as I consider both the faculty and organ of Conjugality 
unestablished. 

Suavitiveness, (Agreeableness) and Intuition (Human Nature) 
have been retained on the list of mental conditions, although I 
do not admit of special cerebral centres for these mental condi- 
tions. 

Two other conditions generally considered separately in other 
sters have also been left out : Activity and Excitability; these 
conditions, in my opinion, depend largely upon temperament and 
the relative proportion of certain parts of the brain and require 
no separate consideration. Other conditions treated in a more or 
less novel form will be found under the following headings : 

Balance between brain and body. 

Quality or texture. 

Culture. 

Health or Vital Vigor. 

Vital Tenacity. 

Tt niperaments. 

Adhesiveness. 

( ontinuitiveness. 

Credenciveness or Faith. 

Imitativeness. 

Suavitiveness. 

Intuition or Human Nature. 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 7 

PHYSIOGNOMY OR PHRENOLOGY — WHICH? 

As is well known to my many patrons and pupils, 1 have for 
years preferred to call myself a Physiognomist rather than a Phren- 
ologist. The reason I abandoned the term Phrenology and 
Phrenologist in favor of Physiognomy and Physiognomist is 
simply this : 

The term Physiognomy (as I define it) expresses more correct ly 
the method of studying and reading character as J practice and 
teach it than the term Phrenology. Let me endeavor to prove it. 
Phrenology practically applied as an art consists in reading- 
character, etc., from the development of different parts of the 
brain, as indicated by the external surface of the skull, in other 
words, whatever Phrenology may be worth as a system of mental 
philosophy, or as the science demonstrating the psychic or men- 
tal functions of the brain, practically applied as a method of reading 
character, it resolves itself into Cranioscopy or Craniology, pure 
and simple. 

Now, it is a well-established fact that the data of Cranioscopy 
do not and cannot furnish us with a very complete and correct 
index of the character of the mind. Dr. Gall, whom [ revere as 
one of the world's greatest philosophers and scientists, and who, 
all must admit, was the greatest as well as the first cranioscopist 
(or cerebral physiologist, as he would probably prefer to bo called) 
never claimed that his discoveries enabled him to give much of a 
description of character, unless the cranial characters were un- 
usually strongly marked ; he even cautioned his students against 
the practice of reading character and talents in detail from the 
shape of the head, and other leading phrenological lights in Eng- 
land, Scotland and America have repeated Gall's caution. 

Character, let us always remember, is the result of two principal 
agencies: ist, of inherited organization ; 2d, of external or ac- 
quired conditions. The former may be called the natural charac- 
ter; the latter includes the individual's early training, his intel- 
lectual, moral and physical education, his environment, including 



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the example set by others, the influence of climate, food, health, 
ase, etc., etc, Now the Natural or native character, /. e.< the 
character we inherit from our immediate or more or less remote 
ancestors is (excepting pathological conditions) correctly indicated 
1>\ the shape of the head, and if the whole brain were always in a 
normal condition o{ healthy activity and the external circumstances 
mentioned were all alike in each and every individual, Phrenology 
practically applied to determine individual character, would des- 
cribe the character of the mind with substantial correctness and 
in detail. 

Unfortunately, however, the external circumstances mentioned 
differ often enormously in individuals, and herein lies the 1 greatest 
difficulty in reading character from the head alone. The external 
circumstances, which modify the natural character, are scarcely 
ever recorded in the externa] shape of the head. Then 
again, the brain, no matter what its size and shape may be> 
is rarely equally active in all its parts, and when it is subject to 
any special influence, increasing or diminishing the activity or 
size of particular organs or centres, the external form fails to in- 
dicate the internal condition, because it can change but slightly and 
with slowness, after the skull is fully developed and ossified. 
In tlie words of Dr. J. R. Buchanan, " Were the skull composed 
of more pliable materials, cranioscopy would be more accurate in 
its facts, but while it preserves a uniform exterior, the interior 
often undergoes remarkable changes. Convolutions that are fre- 
quently called into action become better supplied with arterial 
blood, expand and grow, while the adjacent portion of the inner 
plate of the skull becomes absorbed, and presents a remarkable 
indentation. Convolutions that are seldom in action shrink in 
size, and the adjacent bone grows in upon them. Thus the skull 
becomes thinner at the site of every active organ, and thicker 
aver every convolution that is inactive. 'Hie translucency or 
opacity of the different parts of the skull, when a light is placed 
in its interior, generally indicates the active and v inactive organs. 
Hence, manv skulls of fine exterior reveal, upon interior examina- 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 9 

tion, a degenerate character. Criminal heads generally present 
remarkable opacity and thickness in the region of the moral 
organs, with distinct digital impressions from the convolutions of 
the lower centres." 

Now, the activity or non-activity of different portions of the brain 
and the external circumstances non-indicated on the external 
surface of the skull are, to a very considerable degree at least, 
impressed or stamped upon the face, the person and the manner. 

In addition to the physiognomy of the hard parts (static physi- 
ognomy) indicated by Forth the facial signs of character include 
the expression of intellectual and emotional qualities by means 
of the motor nerves and the muscles of expression. 

Whenever an emotional or any other impulse is generated in 
the brain, the motor nerves carry this impulse to the respective 
muscle or muscles of the face, causing these muscles to contract 
and produce the characteristic facial expression of the emotion 
generated in the brain. If these streams of influence continue 
to pass from the brain to the muscles of expression for some time, 
the muscles so stimulated exert themselves over the other muscles 
and a permanent expression in accordance with the mental character 
is the result. The habitual muscular action and the flow of nerve- 
force in certain directions is even capable of altering the contour of 
such bones and cartilages as are acted upon by the muscles of the 
face. 

Studied in this light, the face may be considered an index, by 
facial expression, both voluntarily and un voluntarily, of the most 
prominent and active qualities of intellect, emotion and will ; it 
tells us what the brain, back of the face, is doing, and what use we 
have made of our inherited faculties. Apart from the revela- 
tions of mental characteristics by means of the motor nerves 
(derived direct from the brain) and the muscles of expression, 
there are signs of character produced on the face from without, 
via the sympathetic system of nerves (termed by Dr. Gall the 
nervous system of automatic functions.) Emotional stimulation 
of the sympathetic nerve fibres which cover all parts of the face 
(and which connect with the cranial nerve trunks, supplying the 






Id THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

face with sensation) is capable of influencing the growth and 
development of the different features of the face very materially, 
especially if the stimulation from without belong continued. 

The various features of the face are also most valuable aids in 
determining the power, tone and directicn of the mind, studied 
from the standpoint of temperamental science (vide pages 
[5-20.). The face also furnishes us by far with the best 
clue as to the quality and texture of the brain and gives 
us most valuable data as to the physical status of an 
individual. In addition to the facial signs of character, character 
is also indicated by actions, such as the voice, gestures, the walk, 
mode of shaking hands, the wearing of apparel, etc. This is 
termed Pathognomy or the natural language of the faculties. 

To be brief, the data of Physiognomy proper, Temperamental 
Science and Pathognomy must be added to Cranioscopy to enable 
us to delineate the character and talents of the average consultant 
with a respectable degree of completeness and correctness. I 
prefer to term the method of reading character by means of these 
agents Physiognomy, instead of Phrenology ; but Physiognomy, as 
I define it, is not simply the art of reading character by means of 
its signs on the face, — it takes a much wider range ; it means a 
knowledge of the relation between the external and internal, 
and in a stricter sense, of the signs through which the character 
of the mind is indicated by the development of the body, the 
shape' of the head, the features and the expression of the face, 
the temperaments and pathognomy or the natural language of the 
faculties, — everything in the external physical appearance of man 
indicative of mental conditions. To study character scientifically^ 
we must study not only the head or the face, but the whole man 
and this I term Physiognomy. 

In harmony with the views expressed above, I call this register 
a Physiognomical Register, and the markings of the tables in the 
back part of the book express the relative power and strength of 
the faculties, not only as indicated by the shape of the head alone, 
but the indications of the face, etc., have been considered as 
well, 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 11 

Although calling myself a Physiognomist in preference to 
Phrenologist (as applied to character reading, etc.), I want it un- 
derstood that I do not question a single well-established fact in 
Phrenology. I believe that nearly every psychic centre as dis- 
covered by Gall and Spurzheim is located correctly ; I simply 
contend that Cranioscopy is insufficient to give a fairly complete 
and correct description of character. 

The term Phrenology, originated by Dr, Forster and afterwards 
adopted by Spurzheim, has been unsatisfactory to other phreno- 
logical writers before my time. Gall never approved of the term, 
neither did Elliotson and the English School of Phrenologists. 
Elliotson preferred and used the term Cerebral Physiology; Dr. J 
R. Buchanan in turn proposed the terms Neurology, Anthropology 
and Cerebral Psychology; Prof. Sizer, of New York, at one time 
favored the term Mental Science, another writer Craniognomy, 
and still another Mentology. One thing is certain, Phrenology is 
not a term to conjure with.. Phrenology and Phrenologist were at 
one time respected terms, but this was before the era of the" fathers 
of practical phrenology." 

Although this register contains many important additions and 
improvements not embodied in other registers, it does not claim 
perfection ; it is the intention of the author to improve it with 
every new edition, and would be pleased to receive practical sug- 
gestions from any one interested and desirous to help improve 
phrenological and physiognomical registers. 

What is very much needed is a standard register for the use of 
all professional examiners. There are many difficulties connected 
with the making of registers and other departments of practical 
Phrenology and Physiognomy, which nothing short of an asso- 
ciation of practical examiners in congress assembled will remove. 
I have for years urged the organization of such an association, 
but have met with but little encouragement, the majority of the 
profession being too apathetic to trouble themselves about im- 
provements in the line of practical Phrenology and Physiognomy, 

H^IT 5 The tables used for marking the mental and physical con- 
ditions estimated and explanation of same, will be found in the 
back part of the book, commencing at page 63. 



1- THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER 

ANALYSIS 
Mental and Physical Qualities. 



GENERAL ORGANIC CONDITIONS. 



I. SIZE OF THE BRAIN. 

The size of the brain, all other conditions being equal, deter 
mines the aggregate amount of mental power, and the size of 
each cerebral centre or organ indicates the power of its corres- 
ponding faculty. 

These other conditions are numerous, and exceedingly important. 
An average sized brain frequently manifests more power than a 
large one, because with the latter the "•other conditions" are not 
equal. A very large brain, with the "other conditions" very un- 
favorable, indicates mental weakness, instead of power, and even 
idiocy is not infrequently the result ; but if the " other conditions " 
are very favorable, the result is a remarkable degree of mental 
power. These other conditions more generally accompany brains 
of full or average than those of the largest size. The adage that 
" valuable articles are done up in small bundles " is often applic- 
able to the brain ; but when the article is of the same quality, its 
worth is in proportion to its amount ; so of the brain. 

It is also understood that education, diet, habits, rest, excite- 
ment, and other external circumstances have great effect in deter- 
mining the degree of mental power ; but these being the same, 
mental power will be in proportion to the strength and perfection 
of the natural physical organization. No possible degree of 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL BEGISTER. 13 

culture can compensate for a want of natural functional power. 

The principal conditions which modify the power of mere size 
and shape of the brain are, ist, Balance between Brain and Body ; 
2d, Health and Vital Vigor ; 3d, Quality or Texturj ; 4, Education 
and Culture ; 5th, Temperament. 

II. BALANCE BETWEEN THE BRAIN AND BODY. 

If the. brain is disproportionately larger than the rest of the 
body, the supply of vital nourishment and vigor is not equal to 
the necessities and demands of the brain ; hence its action must 
be correspondingly less vigorous and efficient ; and when the 
body is thus robbed of its necessary support, general debility and 
inefficiency must consequently ensue, and disease soon follows. 

If the brain and body are well balanced, the demand and supply 
are equal, and a vigorous condition, alike favorable to health and 
mental development, is secured both to the brain and the body. 

III. QUALITY OR TEXTURE. 

This is one of the most important conditions which modify the 
law of size, as applied to the brain and body. The amount being 
the same, the finer the organization the more favorable is it to 
health and endurance, and especially to mental development. 

No one is ignorant of the importance of this condition as ap- 
plied to the different kinds of wood, the various mineral sub- 
stances, and the vegetable kingdom. Agriculturalists and horti- 
culturalists know the superiority of fine over coarse grained 
vegetables and fruits too well to base their selection of either 
upon size, without reference to quality. Every mechanic 
knows the superior strength, beauty, and value of fine grained 
material of all kinds. Physiognomists recognize the same principle 
in its application to the brain and body, and through them to the 
mind. Quality or Texture is not indicated by the size or shape 
of the head, neither is it, as some believe, a matter of Tempera- 
ment or a certain combination of temperamental conditions. 
To a certain extent the quality or texture of the organization is 



U THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

indicated by the hair^ eyes, and skin, hut the expression of the 
face furnishes by far the most reliable data as to the inherent quality. 

[V. CULTURE. 

This conditit n is also o( great importance. The statement 
that a cultivated mind (J do not mean merely intellectually edu- 
cated) is superior to one not cultivated requires no argument. 
Training and Culture, the same as Quality, leave their impression 
on the exterior physical organization, and are shown in the expres" 
sion of the whole organization, but more particularly in the gen- 
eral contour, harmony and expression of the face. 

V. HEALTH AND VITAL VIGOR. 

All are familiar with the effect of debility and sickness in 
modifying the power of the individual, both mentally and physic- 
ally. In proportion as a person is unhealthy or debilitated, he 
is in reality sick ; and there is a corresponding deficiency in func- 
tional vigor and power, of the brain as well as of the body. A 
small, but vigorously healthy individual will both enjoy and 
accomplish much more than one who possesses great natural 
power, but is sickly. All other conditions being the same, the 
power will be exactly proportionate to the healthiness. A per- 
fectly healthy man or woman is a rare curiosity : but, when found, 
accomplishes wonders in proportion to the size of brain and body. 

With three fourths of any community, physiological discipline 
would do far more to develop strength and harmony of mind than 
all the study in the world. Were health the rule and sickness 
the exception, instead of vice versa, which is the present condi- 
tion of society, it is entirely within bounds to say that the aggre- 
gate increase of mental power would be fifty per cent. 

VI. VITAL TENACITY. 

This condition is entirely distinct from vital vigor or the indica- 
tions of good health. There are many persons in whom all the 
functions of the body are vigorously performed and" whose general 



THE P11YSTOONOMTCAL REGISTER. 15 

make-up is decidedly indicative of vital vigor and good health, 
who, nevertheless, readily succumb to attacks of disease, opera- 
tions, etc. ; others again, whose organizations may have all the 
indications of poorly performed vital functions and of poor health 
show, nevertheless, great tenacity of life and are a puzzle to the 
physician. This condition we term vital tenacity and is cranio- 
logically as well as facially indicated. 

TEMPERAMENT. 

This term is employed by phrenologists and physiognomists to 
designate the functional power of the various classes of corporeal 
organs and the kind of influence which they exert upon, both the 
mental and physical conditions of an individual. It is impossible 
to overrate the importance of a favorable temperament in deter- 
mining either the power, tone, or direction of the mind. 

The temperaments are modified, and capable of being even 
radically changed, by the diet, exercise, and habits of the in- 
dividual ; there is also a gradual and inherent natural change of 
temperament all through life. 

Of the two principal methods of classifying the temperaments, 
one, the old method, is based largely upon the color and texture 
of the hair, skin and eyes; and while it is of considerable value, 
especially to physicians, it is more difficult of thorough compre- 
hension and of less practical value in the reading of character 
than the new method ; it is moreover, inapplicable to the colored 
races. The new method originated by Dr. Thomas, of Paris, has 
a purely anatomical and physiological basis, is readily understood 
and is applicable to all races of mankind. Soon after the pub- 
lication of Dr. Thomas' work on the subject, the phrenologists 
O. S. and L. N. Fowler, who up to that time made use of the old 
classification, adopted the principles as laid down by Dr. Thomas, 
but they published and taught a classification differing somewhat 
from that of Dr. Thomas. Their classification has been accepted 
and is used to this day by the majority of American and English 
phrenologists. Briefly stated, it is based upon three systems of 



16 THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER, 

organs, viz.; (i.) The Motive or Mechanical system, including 
the hones, ligaments and muscles. (2.) The Vital or N-itfritive 
system, including the organs of respiration and digestion, the 
lymphatics, blood-vessels and glands. (3.) The Mental or Nervous 
system, including the organs of sense, the brain and the nerves. 
1 have not followed the above nomenclature and classification of 
the temperaments in this register, because they appear to me to 
be defective and capable of signal improvement. My chief objec- 
tion to the classification of the Fowlers is as follows:.' 

The so-called Vital Temperament, includes the two groups of 
organs of the thoracic and abdominal cavities. These two groups 
perform distinct functions, and these hold no determinate relative 
proportion to each other; their facial as well as other physical 
indications are also different, and the mental characteristics 
corresponding to the same differ accordingly. For this reason 
1 subdivide the so-called Vital Temperament into the Abdominal 
and the Thoracic systems. The same objection holds true of the 
so-called Motive Temperament of the Fowlers. This tempera- 
ment is again composed of two distinct systems, the bones and 
the muscles, the mental as well as the physical indications of 
persons having either of these systems in predominance being 
widely different. I therefore propose in this register a division 
of the temperaments into five, instead of three systems, viz. : 

1. The Osseous or bony system. 

2. ,; Muscular system. 

3. Abdominal " 

4. Thoracic ^ " 

5. Cephalic 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 17 

I. OSSEOUS SYSTEM. 

This system includes the bones of the body. 

Prominent signs of this system in predominance are : a long* 
slender, spare, bony frame ; long limbs, arms, hands and fingers ; 
prominent joints, knuckles, and cheekbones ; prominent frontal 
sinus; rectilinear face, — protruding bones generally; motions 
slow and awkward. 

Mental. Characteristics : Slow to learn, unless the brain 
system is well marked. This system is very favorable to stability 
and reliability of character, persons with it in predominance being 
persevering, obstinate, and generally reliable. 

Liability to Disease : Chronic rheumatism, torpid liver, 
enlargement of joints, gravel, stone in bladder, disorders of the 
digestive functions. 

To Cultivate : Out-door exercise in the sunlight, drink water 
rich in lime, and eat farinaceous rather than animal food. 

To Restrain : Sedentary and studious life in the shade, a meat 
rather than a farinaceous diet. 

II. MUSCULAR SYSTEM. 

This system includes the muscles, ligaments and tendons. 

Some of the principal signs of its predominance are : a broad 
and muscular build, broad shoulders, strongly-marked features, 
distinctly marked muscles, a quick and firm step. 

Mentally it gives fondness for physical exertion, love for hard 
work, industry, a strong and positive character, energy, courage, 
etc. Unless the quality of the organization is fine, it disposes to 
physical rather than mental labor. 

Liability to Disease : Indigestion, liver complaint, gravel, 
piles ; more liable to chronic and lingering than acute and inflam- 
matory forms of disease. 

To Cultivate: Consult a rational teacher of gymnastics, 
who will advise such exercises as will best develop a good mus- 
cular system. 

To Restrain: Use your brain more and your body less. 



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III. ABDOMINAL SYSTEM. 

This system includes all the organs of the abdominal viscera, 
the organs of digestion, secretion and excretion. The most 
prominent signs when this system is in predominance are : a 
relatively large abdomen, with a relatively small chest, roundness 
of form, a preponderance of soft tissues over bone and muscle, 
the muscles being generally soft flabby and inelastic ; the ex- 
pression is sleepy and indolent, the circulation sluggish. 

Mentally, people with this system in predominance and the 
other systems relatively weak, incline to mental and physical 
indolence. They take life easy, dislike hard work — both physi- 
cal and mental, — think much of good living and physical en- 
joyments. They succeed by their tact, social influence, etc., 
rather than by hard work. Upon the whole a predominance of 
this system is unfavorable to great mental activity. 

The diseases to which people with this system in predominance 
are most liable to are : Dropsy, gout, apoplexy, paralysis, scrofula ; 
pulmonary complaints, dyspepsia and ordinary nervous aflectious 
are seldom found to accompany it. 

To Cultivate: Practice mental and physical indolence, drink 
milk and cream, eat carbonaceous food and vegetables, rather 
than animal food, sleep more, eat more, and work and study less. 

To Restrain : Sleep less, eat and drink less ; exercise, study 
and work harder; live on a meat rather than a farinaceous diet ; 
drink as little fluid as possible, especially with your meals • avoid 
malt and other spiritous liquors; brisk, dry rubbing, massage 
treatment and hot baths will also be found of benefit. 

IV. THORACIC SYSTEM. 

This system includes the organs of the thoracic cavity, viz., 
the heart, lungs, and also the arteries and veins. Some of the 
principal signs when it is predominant are : a relatively deep 
and broad chest, moderate development of the abdominal, mus- 
cular and bony systems ; face full and round, firm flesh ; large, 



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wide nostrils and a ruddy complexion, vivacious countenance, full, 
bounding pulse, graceful movements. 

Mentally, persons with this system predominant, incline to out- 
door exercise and employment ; dislike confinement and sedentary 
pursuits. They are fonder of active business than constant bone 
and muscle labor ; their feelings are strong ; they incline to im- 
pulsiveness and are seldom quiet or patient ; they are noted for 
ardor, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, vivacity and sociaibility, but 
they frequently lack stability, continuity, and perseverance. They 
are most liable to inflammatory diseases aud sudden attacks, 
diseases of the heart and lungs, apoplexy, gout, rheumatism. 

To Cultivate : Avoid sedentary employment, confinement in 
close, dark or shaded rooms, continuous and excessive mental 
application, and expose yourself to fresh air and sunshine ; go 
through exercises calculated to expand the chest, and to increase 
the power of the heart and lungs and surround yourself with 
pleasant, cheerful company. 

To Restrain : Cultivate the muscular and cephalic systems by 
hard study and work, stay more indoors, and live on a vegetable 
rather than an animal diet. 



V. CEPHALIC SYSTEM, (mental temperament or brain 

system). 

This system includes the brain and nerves. 

When predominant, it is indicated by a head large in propor- 
tion to the body ; small, delicate features ; head and face pyro- 
form or pearshaped, the upper forehead being the widest part, 
expressive countenance, organization generally delicate ; slender, 
instead of stocky or corpulent ; bones and muscles comparatively 
small ; skin soft, hair fine. 

This system is very favorable to mental activity. Its predomi- 
nance inclines to mental instead of physical force and strength. 
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professional pursuits rather than active business, or bone 1 and 
muscle labor. It produces intensity of emotion, sensitiveness, 
refinement and imagination, delicacy o\ feeling. Intellect specu- 
lative and theoretical rather than practical and matter of fact. 

Liabilities ro Disease: brain fever, dyspepsia, consumption, 
insanity, nervous prostration, insomnia, headaches. 

To Cui riVATE: Continuous mental activity, hard study, ab- 
stemious habits, moderate sleep. 

To Restrain : Avoid coffee, tea, tobacco, liquors, and all other 
stimulants and narcotics, take plenty out-door exercise, bathe 
daily, tepid water in the beginning, gradually taking it colder ; 
live on a nutritious diet; take plenty of sleep; withdraw as much 
as possible from mental labor, cutoff all unnecessary brain wastes, 
and build up the physical strength. 



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MENTAL FACULTIES OR POWERS. 



ORDER I — AFFECTIVE FACULTIES OR FEELINGS. 

From these faculties originate the propensities, desires, emo- 
tions, sentiments, and the whole range of those mental operations, 
denominated feelings. They constitute by far the largest, most 
vivid, and most powerful class of the mental operations ; and 
whenever their legitimate stimuli are presented, they rush into 
involuntary activity, and frequently without awaiting the mandate 
of reason. 

GENUS I — SELF RELATIVE FACULTIES. 

These faculties impel those acts and produce those feelings 
which relate almost exclusively to the advantage of self. 

SPECIES I — SELF PROTECTING FACULTIES. 

These faculties are specially adapted to man's animal existence. 
They lead him to make provision for his animal wants, to work 
and accumulate property, make him mindful of danger, assert 
and defend his rights of person and property, etc. ; a good 
development of this group is absolutely necessary to success in 
life. This group is capable of convenient sub-division as follows : 

A. CORPOREAL RANGE. 

Related to the nourishment and preservation of the body. 



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I. ALIMENTIVENESS, 

This faculty being the first mental element called into action 
after birth, heads the list of mental faculties. 

Definition : Propensity to take food and drink, and relish for 
same. Persons in whom this faculty is strong find great pleasure 
in eating and drinking, while those in whom it is weak take suf- 
ficient to nourish the body, but take no particular pleasure in 
eating, even if the food is of the choicest and finest variety. 

Deficiency : Indifference in regard to food and drink. 

Excess and Perversion: Gormandizing, gluttony, drunken- 
ness, inordinate fondness for gustatory pleasures. 

To Cultivate : Select the food you most relish, get up a good 
appetite by out door exercise or work, make your table as attrac- 
tive as possible and then sit down with a determination to enjoy 
your food, taking care to eat slowly. If possible, share your 
meals with a friend having a healthy appetite and great relish for 
the good things of the table. 

To Restrain: Avoid rich food, and highly seasoned dishes, 
also all malt and spirituous liquors, eat more sparingly at your 
meals, — if convenient, it is best for you to eat only two meals per 
day, partake of only one or two dishes at each meal, eat very 
slowly and take but small mouthfuls. 

II. VITATIVENESS. 

Definition: Love of life, vital tenacity, love of existence for 
its own sake. 

Deficiency : Indifference to life or the care of it. 

Excess and Perversion : Great clinging to life and dread of 
death. 

To Cultivate : Contemplate the pleasures and advantages of 
life and form plans to secure the same in the largest possible 
measure. 



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To Restrain : Guard against a morbid love of life or dread of 
death ; regard death as much as possible as a natuial institution 
and this life as the pupilage for a better state of being. 

B. BELLIGERENT RANGE. 

Related to aggressive and defensive operations. 

III. DESTRUCTIVENESS. 

Definition : Fxecutiveness, propensity to destroy, exterminate, 
etc. ; it imparts energy of action and force of character. 

Deficiency: Tameness of disposition, lack of propelling 
power. 

Excess and Perversion : Anger, rage, cruelty, revenge, harsh- 
ness and severity, tendency to torment ; bitter, caustic language, 
in which is included cursing and scolding, is referable to the 
abuse of this faculty. 

To Cultivate : In cultivating this faculty care should be taken 
that it is exercised under the control of the higher faculties. Its 
legitimate office being to destroy and break through difficulties, 
its power can be increased by cultivating force and executiveness, 
by surmounting obstacles, and throwing yourself -into those situa- 
tions where you are obliged to cope with difficulties. You should 
take life as it comes, in the rough, and with a zest put your plans 
through all that opposes them. Hunting, blasting rocks, felling 
trees, gymnastic exercises, exercising indignation when wronged, 
espousing the cause of the oppressed, fighting public evils, such 
as intemperance, etc., are all calculated to cultivate and strengthen 
this faculty. 

To Restrain : This faculty is generally too strong compara- 
tively, and assisted by wrong food and drink is also abnormal in 
expression, and therefore requires a hundred-fold more regulation 
and restraint than cultivation. You should cultivate a mild, kind, 
and forgiving spirit, and. when you feel your anger rising, or are 



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inclined to be harsh, sarcastic, cruel, contrary, revengeful or 
malicious, with a firm will check it at the first indication. This 
can be done with a large measure of success by the principle of 
fian. " When you find your wrath rising unduly in conver- 
sation or business, turn on your heel and banish the provocation, 
however great, by doing or thinking of something else — some- 
thing that will effectually withdraw your mind from the aggrava- 
tion and consequent anger. This dwelling on them, while it 
seldom obviates any evil, only still further sours the temper and 
increases destructiveness. Reflect, in addition, that the error may 
possibly be yours — that your enemy thinks himself wronged as 
much as you do, and justifies his course as much as you do yours ; 
that to err is human ; and that the cause of the dispute may 
possibly be on both sides; that even if he alone is at fault, yet 
that, as you hope to be forgiven, so you must be willing to for- 
give. This diversion, in connection with these and kindred 
reflections, will soon curb your temper, and restore a serene and 
happy frame of mind." When occasion requires you to reprove, 
do it in a bland, gentle manner, rather than roughly ; avoid kill- 
ing anything, take little or no animal food and no spirituous 
liquors, and avoid everything that has a tendency to provoke you. 

IV. COMBATIVENESS. 

Definition: Propensity to defend, resist and oppose. To re- 
sist wrongs, to accomplish great projects involving opposition, 
and to do all this with determination, resolution, boldness and 
courage, is the office of Combativeness when rightly directed. 

Deficiency: Cowardice, inefficiency, want of energy of char- 
acter. 

Excess and Perversion : A fault-finding, contentious, quarrel- 
some disposition, pugnacity. 

To Cultivate: The faculty of Combativeness is absolutely 
necessary to success in all plans, purposes, aims, and objects of 



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life, hence the constant and persistent cultivation of it when de- 
ficient should be a daily and hourly law. To this end you should 
encourage a bold, resistant, defiant, self-dependent spirit ; fend 
off any and all imposition, engage in debates and mental contests 
involving the merits and demerits of politics, art, science and 
religion ; resent promptly any appearance of advantage, and 
never allow yourself to be over-ridden without an effort to 
defend your rights and position. Especially should you, in 
any undertakings you may plan, whether they be important or 
insignificant, ever lay hold of them with a courage and a determi- 
nation not to fail. Ever keep in mind the language of Combative- 
ness and Firmness : "I can and I will" never indulge in a " / 
can't" or allow yourself to be beaten, but otherwise push and 
follow up so closely and energetically as to carry all before you ; 
do not stop to enumerate the obstacles in your path, but carry 
them by storm. Speak out courageously, fearlessly, and emphat- 
ically, as though you meant all you said, and intended to make 
others feel it, and back your assertions up with the doing, of it. 

To Restrain : This is only necessary when perverted, 
or not governed by the higher faculties. You should avoid 
debates involving exciting discussions and conflicts of opinion 
as well as scenes and places where temptation to quarrel and 
fight would be likely to assail you. 

C. PRUDENTIAL RANGE 

Related to concealment of purpose, restraint, prudence and 
foresight. 

V. SECRETIVENESS. 

Definition : Propensity to conceal thoughts, feelings and 
deeds, in short, to suppress the expression of other mental opera- 
tions, producing discretion, reserve, policy, tact. It aids acquis- 
itiveness in the retention of property. The legitimitate object of 
this faculty is to restrain the outward expression of our thoughts 
and emotions, giving the understanding time to pronounce judg- 
ment on its propriety. 



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DEFICIENCY : Want of reserve or proper tact and policy, blunt- 
ness oi manner, transparency of thought and feelings, 

Excess \\d Perversion: Hypocrisy, double-dealing, deceit- 
fulness, evasion, slyness, trickery, craftiness. 

To Cultivate : To cultivate this facultv, be ever on the alert 
to exercise it. Do not let all your feelings burst out as they come 
up. for you may only make unnecessary enemies and lose friends. 
I se cautiousness and reason to keep impulse in check. Do not 
so freely divulge your plans and purposes, for in doing so you not 
only weaken your own efforts, or prevent their accomplishment, 
but allow others to anticipate you. A due degree of Secretive^ 
ness is indispensable to success in almost every undertaking. 
Especially keep your feelings to yourself till you have decided 
intellectually that their expression is proper. Measure all your 
words. Be guarded, wise, politic, reserved, and not too communi- 
cative. Explain yourself less plainly and pointedly. Be less 
blunt and open ; lawyer-like, let others do most of the talking 
and commit themselves, but keep yourself to yourself, observe and 
take lessons from those who have it strong, and "go and do like- 
wise." In the judicious cultivation of Secretiveness it is not 
necessary to practice deception in any form or degree, but it 
should always be subject to the rigid control of Conscientiousness. 
Lie not — yet leave others to find out as best they can. You 
may employ policy, not in deceiving others, but simply in protect- 
ing yourself — in withholding, but never in misstating. 

To Restrain : To diminish and regulate this faculty, you 
should, whenever the right occasion offers, unbosom your mind 
freely. Be less equivocal, and do things more openly. Take less 
pains to disguise your opinions and plans, and do above board 
what you do at all. Be frank with the world : frankness is the 
child of honesty and courage. Cultivate a direct, straightforward, 
above board and open spirit, and make a constant effort to give 
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VI. CAUTIOUSNESS. 

Definition : Propensity to seek safety and to avoid danger. 
This faculty conduces to prudence and carefulness, it is also the 
basis of fear, anxiety and watchfulness. Combined with intellect, 
it gives rise to foresight and forethought. 

Deficiency : Heedlessness, recklessness, disregard for conse- 
quences. 

Excess and Perversion : Indecision and irresolution, sus- 
piciousness, timidity, cowardice, undue sensibility to alarm, pro- 
crastination. 

To Cultivate : Those in whom this faculty is weak should 
remember that they are too careless, and that their thoughtless- 
ness is the principal cause of their misfortune, most of which 
carefulness would obviate. Such should ever watchfully put them- 
selves on their guard, and endeavor to reflect before doing ; they 
should dwell on the dangers they have escaped, especially let 
such guard against unforeseen catastrophes, and practice the 
motto of " sure bind, sure find." Count the advantages against, 
but not for you ; look out for breakers, think how much indiscre- 
tion and carelessness have injured you, and be more careful and 
watchful in everything ; remember that danger is always greater 
than you anticipate, so keep aloof from every appearance of it. 

To Restrain : Do not be ever anticipating imaginery evils, or 
ever apprehending danger where there is none, or regarding 
trifling obstacles as insurmountable, or so procrastinating as to 
let excellent opportunities constantly slip by. The way to do this 
is to offset the workings of this faculty by combativeness, judg- 
ment, decision, hope, and other faculties, and by exercising it 
less. Whenever the occasion offers, you should decide promptly, 
and then urge forward your project, whether it be a success or 
failure. You should constantly bear in mind that your fears are 
excessive, and oft-times wholly groundless ; that, having large 
Cautiousness, you are excited to more solicitude, doubt, irresolu- 



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tion, and procrastination than is reasonable or best ; and there- 
tore yon over-rate difficulties, magnify dangers, apprehend move 
difficult) than you ever experience, are anxious without cause, 
tearful where there is no danger, and waste time in procrastina - 
tion which should be devoted to action. Impress this upon your 
mind, and constantly endeavor to act on it, and your extra Cautious- 
ness will not result in much harm. 

D. INDUSTRIAL RANGE. 

Related to work, business and property. 

VII. ACQUISITIVENESS. 

Definition : Sense of property, propensity to acquire substance, 
desire to get, own, possess and keep. It is the principal element 
in industry, economy and providential forethought. It gives only 
the tendency or desire but not the ability to acquire property, un 
less accompanied with the necessary intellectual and other requisite 
qualities. It gives the desire to possess pictures, books, antique 
coins, minerals, etc., as well as property. 

Deficiency: Want of economy, wastefulness, prodigality, in- 
ability to appreciate the value of money or property. When this 
faculty is weak, there is little ability to keep money, in a thousand 
ways it slips through the fingers, spending it faster than is 
required, and never laying up anything for a " rainy day." 

Excess and Perversion : Selfishness, avarice, covetousness, 
a miserly, grasping disposition, and an all absorbing love of gain 
for its own sake. W 7 ith strongly marked caution and weak hope 
it produces penuriousness and want of enterprise. 

To Cultivate: When this faculty is weak, and there is too 
little economy and a tendency to lavish and careless expenditure, 
some plan devised by intellect must be put into operation to com- 
pel, as it were, a more prudent and saving course. Keeping a 
strict account of expenditures, and especially personal expenses, 
and looking over and balancing cash accounts frequently, will 
serve to remind one how the money goes, and wherein much of it 



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might readily be saved. Making up one's mind to get rich, if 
there be a strong will to back the resolution, arouses Acquisitive- 
ness and greatly increases its power. Save the pennies and 
everything useful which is not wanted now, against a time of need. 
Spend less, and only for articles that are absolutely required and 
that are really beneficial. If you are in a town, city, or village, 
where a saving's bank is located, open an account and make an 
effort to deposit something — if it is but an insignificant amount — 
weekly. Especially save the dribletts — " take care of the pennies, 
and the dollars will take care of themselves." Strive after all 
proper means to acquire and save property, and to gather about 
you the comforts and enjoyments of life. Remember you do not 
know how soon sickness, accident, or other circumstances, may 
take from you the ability to make money, and then, if you have 
heretofore been saving and economical, and possess a snug little 
sum at the bank, you are in a position independent of the cold 
chanties of the world. 

To Restrain : Be more liberal in the use of money. Remem- 
ber that the sole use of money is to purchase the means to properly 
gratify the other faculties. As long as you hoard it, it will do you 
no good. Cultivate the higher faculties : Benevolence, Conscien- 
tiousness, Ideality and the reflective faculties tend to counteract 
a miserly disposition or too great a love of money ; study means 
for enjoying your property, and often quit business for recreation. 

VIII. CONSTRUCTIVENESS. 

Definition : Disposition to mend, make and construct ; taste 
and inclination to engage in mechanical work. This faculty is 
essential in all arts which involve mechanical construction and 
configuration. Mechanical talent is not produced by Construc- 
tiveness alone, it merely produces the desire for and experiences 
pleasure in mecchanical labor. The ability to manifest skill in the 
use of tools depends upon the perceptive faculties in connection 
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Defk [ENCY : Lack oi ingenuity and aptitude. 

Excess vnd Perversion: Attempting mechanical impos- 
sibilities and impractical contrivances. 

To Cultivate : The constant use of tools, however awkwardly 
at first, the study of the mechanical arts, writing, drawing, obser- 
vation and study of machinery, etc., will promote the develop- 
ment of this faculty. 

SPECIES II. .KSTHETICAL OR IMPROVING FACULTIES. 

These faculties prompt to the improvement of self and surround- 
ings. They give desire for an appreciation of the beautiful, the 
great and the congruous. Refinement, art and poetry are the 
result of these faculties. 

IX. IDEALITY (Perfectiveness). 

Definition : Adapted to beauty, perfection and refinement. 
It is to this faculty that we owe our sense of the beautiful and the 
exquisite. It gives inspiration to the poet, painter, sculptor, orator, 
and writer, and tends to refine and elevate the mind in general. 
It is one of the main ingredients of the faculty of Imagination of 
the old metaphysical schools. 

Deficiency : Lack of taste, non-appreciation of the perfect and 
beautiful. 

Excess and Perversion : Over-fastidiousness, sickly refine- 
ment, a distaste for every-day life. 

To Cultivate : Carefully avoid all low and vulgar habits, 
associates and surroundings ; cultivate the company of the refined 
and pure-minded ; be scrupulously neat, dress tastefully, surround 
yourself if possible, with works of art, and practice the best 
style in conversation and manner. Study poetry, art and polite 
literature to appreciate beauty in all its forms. 

To Restrain : Remember that perfection is not one of the 
qualities of earthly things, and that in you the ideal and im- 



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aginative exceed the practical, and that you must try to realize 
that air-castles and ideal men and women are rather out of place 
in a rough, practical world like this. Do not not refuse to asso- 
ciate with others because they do not in all particulars meet your 
fastidious tastes. 

X. SUBLIMITY. 

Definition : Sense of the vast, stupendous, magnificent, grand, 
sublime and illimitable. It adapts us to the rugged in nature, the 
convulsive throes of troubled elements, mountains and ravines, 
cataracts, volcanic eruptions and storms. This faculty is another 
ingredient of the faculty of Imagination of the old metaphysicians. 
It inspires with great conceptions, nerves the pinions of the poet 
to ascend the lofty heights of sublime grandeur, gives a liking for 
magnificent descriptions and a tendency to grandiloquence. It 
gives merchants a desire to deal largely, and with strongly marked 
Hope to enter into great speculations. 

Deficiency : Inability to appreciate the grand and majestic, 
the magnificent and sublime. 

Excess : Leads to bombast, exaggeration and an inflated style. 

To Cultivate : Visit grand and wild scenery, admire the 
grand and stupendous in towering mountains, rushing wind and 
storm, loud thunder, raging sea, roaring cataracts, and the 
boundless, infinite and eternal in nature. 

XL MIRTHFULNESS. (Wit.) 

Definition: Wit, humor, love of fun, perception of the absurd 
and ridiculous, disposition to joke and be merry. It enjoys the 
ludicrous, the droll, comical, incongruous and eccentric. 

Deficiency : Indifference to wit and humor, inappreciation of 
jokes, excessive sedateness. 

Excess and Perversion : Clownishness, making fun on solemn 
and improper occasions, excessive levity of spirit, playing prac- 
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Vo Ci i rn \n •■ : The facetious aspect oi things and subjects 
should be contemplated, and the idea that dignity and se^-respect 
require perpetual seriousness must be resolutely combated. The 
company oi mirthful people should be sought, for nothing is more 
contagious than genuine jollity. There is a time to laugh, as 
well as a time to weep, and laughter is promotive of health and 
longevity. The injunction to "laugh and grow fat " is not with- 
out physiological reason, nor is the Shakesperian adage that "a 
light heart lives long" a mere poetical flourish. Attending com- 
ical theatrical exhibitions, farces, comic operas, reading the works 
of witty authors, also have a tendency to promote the activity of 
this faculty. 

To Restrain : Avoid turning everything into ridicule. It is 
the abuse of this faculty you should try to avoid by cultivating 
sobriety and reverence. 

GENUS II. SOCIETARY OR SOCIAL FACULTIES. 

These faculties depend largely, if not entirely, upon other beings 
for their gratification. They adapt man to live with his fellows ; 
they give rise to the Family, to Society and the State. 

SPECIES I. DOMESTIC FACULTIES. 

Related to sex, children, home and friends. 
XII. AMATIVENESS. 

Definition: The sexual instinct (Instinct of propagation). 
It produces physical love between the sexes, and is adapted to 
the continuance of the species ; it is the great centre of attrac- 
tion which draws the sexes together. 

Deficiency: Indifference to the opposite sex. 

Excess and Perversion: Sensuality, libertinism, licentious- 
ness, proneness to vulgarity in expression and action. 

To Culi [v \ i e : This faculty, like any other, can be cultivated 
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embodies the feeling of obligation, devotion, and love to the 
opposite sex. You should go into society as much as con\enient, 
ever making' (or trying to make) yourself as pleasant, entertain- 
ing, and agreeable as possible. Marriage when rightly entered into 
and rightly observed,, will greatly help to growth into a full 
sexuality. 

To Restrain : Direct this feeling more to the mental and less 
to the personal qualities of the other sex ; admire and love them 
more for their minds than their bodies, for their intellectual and 
moral qualities than mere instruments of passion ; seek the society 
of the virtuous and good ; live on a plain, non-stimulating diet, 
avoiding coffee, tea, tobacco, and all spirituous liquors on account 
of their tendency to increase sexual passion, if for no other reason ; 
bathe daily in cold or tepid water ; exercise much out doors, and 
apply yourself more closely to mental and physical labor. Judi- 
dious gymnastic exercise is also very beneficial. 

XIII. PHILOPROGENITIVENESS. 

Definition : Love of offspring and of children generally, 
parental tenderness and affection, fondness for pets, animals, etc. 

Persons largely endowed with this faculty are enveloped with 
a magnetism that, without a word or action, draws all children 
toward them, making friends at once with them. The children 
trust them at sight, and love them as quickly. 

Those who have the care of children, as well as all teachers of 
children, should possess it in full, for in this lies the great secret 
of success with the young. 

Deficiency : When this faculty is deficient, children are re- 
garded with indifference, are felt to be a heavy burden and they 
are generally abandoned to the care of menials or altogether 
neglected. 

Excess and Perversion : When too energetic and not regu- 
lated by judgment, it leads to pampering and spoiling children, 
indulging them in everything they desire, and produces inordinate 



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solicitude and anxiety on their account and excessive grief over 
their loss. s 

To Cultivate : To cultivate the faculty of Parental Love one 
should court the society of children; play much with them, and 
try to enter into the spirit of their sports and games, and to 
sympathize with them in their little joys and griefs, being always 
tender and indulgent toward them. Those who have no children 
of their own should, if they have the means to support them, 
adopt one or more, or provide some suitable pets. 

To Restrain : If there be a tendency to idolatrous fondness 
or to undue and hurtful indulgence, the restraining influence of 
reason and moral sentiment must be brought to bear. It should 
be impressed upon the mind that the good of the child requires 
the exercise of the parents' authority, and that they are respon- 
sible for all the evils which come from their neglect to exercise it. 

XIV. ADHESIVENESS. 

Definition : The gregarious instinct, propensity to form 
attachments, sociability, love of society, desire to congregate, 
affiliate with and to form friends and acquaintances. In 
my opinion phrenologists attribute to this and other faculties 
belonging to this group, higher and nobler functions than careful 
observation warrants ; an individual may have a very poor develop- 
ment of the cranial signs of Adhesiveness and yet manifest decided 
capacity for real, disinterested friendship ; and the reverse is fre- 
quently true of individuals with a large development of the 
cranial sign of this faculty. The faculty of Adhesiveness as 
localized by phrenologists gives the tendency to form attachments 
and indulge friendly feelings, but only in combination with a good 
development of the higher faculties, the so-called moral senti- 
ments or conforming faculties, does this faculty give rise to that 
holiest of all feelings, pure, disinterested friendship. 

DEFICIENCY: Indifference to social interests, love of solitude, 
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Excess and Perversion : Attachment to worthless or impro- 
per persons. 

To Cultivate : The right cultivation of this faculty, when 
deficient, is very important to all whose aim is success in life. 
You should not wrap yourself up in the frigid cloak of selfish 
isolation, but should' cultivate friendship by associating freely 
with those around you, ever opening up your better nature to the 
reception and expression of cordial friendship. To live alone, 
and close the avenues of warm-hearted friendship, is to exclude 
one of the highest pleasures of living. Be less exclusive and 
fastidious in regard to associates, and do not refuse to affiliate 
with those not exactly to your liking. Try to be less distant, 
go more into society and be more companionable. You should 
try to ever cultivate cordiality toward all mankind, and when 
traveling by sea or land you should " scrape acquaintance'' with 
your fellow-travelers, freely exchanging views and feelings by 
social intercourse and friendly gossip. 

In business you should especially cultivate Adhesiveness, taking 
a strong interest in the hopes, desires, and aims of all those with 
whom you come in contact (whether they be immediately related 
to you in a business way or otherwise), advising, encouraging, and 
assisting them if necessary. The doing of this with an earnest 
desire will effect a wonderful influence in your own material 
prosperity and happiness of mind. 

Strong Adhesiveness is a necessity to success in all kinds of 
business ; for its exercise secures customers for the merchant, 
.clients for the lawyer, patients for the physician, patrons and 
pupils for the teacher, hearers for the preacher, work for the 
mechanic, markets for the farmer, votes for the politician and 
patronage for all who exercise it. Friendly, social people are 
appreciated wherever they may be ; while the society of cold, coy 
and distant persons is never sought. 

To Restrain : Adhesiveness rarely requires restraining, but it 
should be kept under the guidance of the intellect and moral senti- 



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ments, so as not to be- bestowed upon unworthy objects. If you have 
formed improper attachments break them off at oncer and do 
it thoroughly; banish as tar as possible all ideas of the person or 
persons involved and busy yourself about other matters, so as to en- 
able you to forget all about them. 

XV. A. INHABITIVENESS. 

Definition: Love of home, desire for a home or place of 
abode, attachment to the place where one has lived. 

Deficiency: Indifference to home surroundings, a roaming 
disposition. 

Excess and Perversion :. H ome-sickness results from its ex- 
cessive or morbid action, also prejudices against other places or 
countries. 

To Cultivate : To increase the activity of this faculty, a home 
with a small piece of land attached should be secured. You 
should improve it by planting fruit trees and shrubbery, multiply- 
ing conveniences about it, staying much at home, indulging a love 
for it, making it as attractive as possible, and dwelling on the 
associations and memories connected with it. Especially should 
you avoid moving from one place to another, for this has a ten- 
dency to enfeeble this faculty. 

To Restrain ; Go frequently abroad, travel, visit friends at a 
distance, read books of travel, and become interested in other 
homes and lands than your own. 

XV. B. CONTINUmVENESS OR CONCENTRATIVENESS. 

The cerebral seat of the faculty of Inhabitiveness was dis- 
covered by Dr. Spurzheim, but the function of this particular part 
of the brain has given rise to no end of argument and discussion 
on the part of phrenologists. Mr. Geo. Coombe and his followers 
claim that it is the seat of the faculty termed by Combe Con- 
centrativeness, and by others called Continuity. Dr. Spurzheim 
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excellent reasons for so doing. Most American phrenologists 
compromised in this matter and acknowledge two faculties, one, 
Concentrativeness or Continuity, and Inhabitiveness, the former 
faculty having its seat above Inhabitiveness. Vimont, an emi- 
nent French phrenologist, on the other hand, while accepting 
two faculties and two cerebral seats of same, places Inhabitive- 
ness above and Continuity below. I regard Continuitiveness 
or Concentrativeness as an incidental effect of Inhabitiveness 
and for this reason consider it under the same head. 

Continuitiveness may be defined as the quality which gives un- 
divided and continued attention to one subject until it is finished, 
and distaste for change and variety. Persons with this faculty 
strong are disposed to dwell upon one subject and to keep at one 
kind of work ; they possess more continuity of action and are 
indisposed to change from one thing to another. 

Deficiency : Excessive fondness for variety, inclination to 
mental rambling, restlessness and changeableness of study, im- 
patience, tendency to have too many irons in the fire. 

Excess and Perversion : Prolixity, tediousness, dwelling too 
long on one thing. 

Some writers contend that the function ascribed to Continuity 
is performed by the faculty of Firmness; this, to my mind is not 
the case. Firmness gives steadfastness, determination, obstinacy of 
purpose ; Continuitiveness gives patient, plodding, application and 
continuity to impressions, whether feelings or ideas. 

While phrenologists do not quite agree as to the exact function 
of this faculty and its organ or centre in the brain, all will, I 
think, agree with Mr. Nicholas Morgan : " Whatever may be the 
exact nature of its function and its various modes of operation, 
settledness, stability, industry and attention are agreeable to it, 
but want of application, rovingness, inconstancy and desultoriness 
affect it disagreeably." 

To Cultivate : Fix the mind and keep it fixed on one subject 
for a long time ; do not allow your thoughts to wander or your 



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attention to be distracted or indulge variety and diversity in any- 
thing, let it be "One thing at a time." Such an arrangement of 

work or business as will compel continuous attention to one thing, 
or a steady adherence to one line of conduct will tend to increase 
the activity of this faculty. Americans, as a rule, are deficient 
in Continuity, and one great reason for this is the mode of educa- 
tion. Crowding so many studies upon the attention of children 
in one day — devoting a few minutes to reading, a few minutes to 
spelling, a few more to writing, a few more to arithmetic, etc., 
can not help resulting in weak Continuity. 

To Restrain : Engage in what will compel you to attend to a 
great many different things in quick succession, move rapidly 
from one thing to another, dwelling on nothing long. In writing 
or speaking, where there is a tendency to prolixity, it is well to 
prescribe to one's self, before commencing, rather narrow limits, 
and make it a point not to overstep them. 

SPECIES III. GOVERNING OR ASPIRING FACULTIES. 

Related to Independence, Self-will, Social Eminence ; tend- 
ing to the government of the family and society. 

XVI. SELF-ESTEEM. 

Definition : Self-respect, dignity, pride, propensity to com- 
mand and govern, to take the lead and direct the conduct and 
affairs of others; it also produces independence and individuality 
of character. When Self-Esteem is supported by a fair share of 
Combativeness and Hopefulness it produces the feeling of self- 
reliance and self-confidence. 

Deficiency: Self-distrust and depreciation, diffidence, want of 
self-assurance, humility. 

Excess and Perversion : Insupportable pride, egotism, im- 
periousness, haughtiness. 

To Cultivate: The cultivation of this faculty, when deficient, 
is of the greatest importance, as nothing makes up for the lack of 



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Self- Esteem in man. The only way to cultivate it is To Exercise 
It, to assume responsibilities, instead of shrinking from them ; 
to take the lead, to laugh at and make light of difficulties. Push 
forward in company or in public assemblies ; sing, read, or speal: 
in public, and don't be daunted by failure, but persevere till ] 
can do before a public audience what you can do in your r 
room. Never say " I can't." Remember that you plac 
a valuation on yourself, that you are at least as r 
generality of your fellow-men, that what you lack 
but confidence in your ability, and that success 
deal upon one's estimate of one's self. M> 
moderate ability achieve success through the 
this faculty inspires. "They are able, 1 

are able." On the other hand, many persons of much greater 
ability fail in similar circumstances, because a lack of Self- Esteem 
makes them hesitate to assume responsibility. Remember also, 
that the higher you rate yourself, the higher will you be rated by 
others. If you place a low estimate upon yourself, most people 
will rate you still lower. Never underrate yourself ; leave that to 
the world, and when the world makes its estimate, clap on a hun- 
dred per cent and the world will pay you fifty. The too low 
valuation, which arises from the deficiency of this faculty can also 
be corrected by bringing prominently into view the best traits of 
your character and your capabilities and reflecting on the exalted 
nature of these endowments. 

In the undertaking of any work, and the doing of it, assume a 
confidence of success, and an ability to cope with and complete it. 
As, by aiming at the sun, though we do not hit it, we yet shoot 
much higher than if our mark were low, so this faculty inspires 
us to desire and attempt to do and become something worthy of 
ourselves, and should therefore be cultivated. 

A correct physiognomical analysis of your character and 
talents will do much to correct false and especially too low esti- 
mates of your character. To cultivate it in children throw them 



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upon their own resources as much as possible. Do no1 humble 
I rather exalt them ill their own estimation. Raise, not 
hem. 

STRAIN : In the restraint of this faculty, or rather in its 
ction — for it is more often perverted than excessive — 
d keep in mind that your exalted notions are more apt to 
inordinate Self- Esteem than real merit, and that there- 
your talents great or small, you overrate them; that 
> apt to put yourself too much forward ; that more modesty 
prove you, and that an over-bearing demeanor has a 
to turn other people against you. You should care- 
fully 1 the proud, haughty, touch-me-not, imperious I-am-bet- 
ter-than ou bearing, which at all times is utterly contemptible. 
Granted that you are better than others what have you that you 
have not received. Then why thus vaunt yourself on what was 
given you. True greatness produces modesty, not ostentation ; 

XVII. APPROBATIVENESS. 

Definition : Love of approbation, the desire to please, to gain 
approval, admiration, reputation and popularity ; love of praise, 
fame and glory ; love of display ; ambition. 

l)i.i iciency : Disregard for the opinion of others and personal 
appearance. 

Excess and Perversion: Vanity, affectation, over-anxiety to 
please, efforts to obtain applause and notoriety, undue sensitive- 
ness to praise and blame. Self-praise, jealousy, rivalry and 
envy take their origin from perverted Approbativeness. An excess 
oi Approbativeness and Cautiousness with weak Self Esteem gives 
rise to bashfulness. 

To Cultivate: Remember that you often stand in your own 
light by caring too little for the opinion of other people, for appear- 
ance and character : you should cherish a higher regard for public 
opinion ; ever strive to assume those pleasant modes of action 
and expression, and agreeable manners and address calculated to 



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elicit encomiums. Say agreeable things as often and as far as 
consistent with the higher faculties, and when you must say un- 
pleasant things, say them as pleasantly as possible, uniting per- 
suasiveness with force. Never neglect appearance, especially in 
those little matters of life which win. Never say " I don't care." 
Read Lord Chesterfield's " Letters to My Son." 

To Restrain : Possessing an excessive endowment of this 
faculty, you should ever remember that you are altogether too sensi- 
tive to correction and reproof ; that your feelings are often hurt when 
there has been no occasion ; that when you imagine yourself 
neglected, the cause is entirely within yourself. Too great sensi- 
tiveness to praise and blame can be overcome by using reason to 
show how little either of them is generally worth, and by recalling 
to mind how often the feelings have been hurt in the past, when, 
as has been afterwards seen, there was no real cause. Subject 
Approbativeness to Conscientiousness, that is, do what is right 
and let people think and say what they like. One good method 
to restrain Approbativeness is to cultivate Self-Esteem, because, 
as a rule, the higher we rate ourselves and our abilities, the less 
we care for the opinion of others. 

XVIII. FIRMNESS. 

Definition : Stability, tenacity of purpose, determination, for- 
titude, aversion to change. When this faculty is strong it gives 
permanency and steadiness to the character, it is the chief in- 
gredient in that great virtue perseverance, without which nothing 
would be accomplished. It is strong in all great characters. It 
has done much to make them great by making them steady to their 
purposes. " This is the propensity to resist the influences which 
tend to produce changes of purpose, such as persuasions, arguments, 
threats, examples and commands. It tends to bestow stability 
of character." — Grimes. 

Deficiency : Inability, unsteadiness, lack of backbone, fickle- 
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changeable, fickle as the wind, unstable as the cloud, and 
indicates a conscious want of power to struggle against opposing 
forces and a tendency to yield. A great deal of dishonesty is 
caused by a deficiency o( Firmness ; people so organized often 
find it very hard to resist temptation. 

Excess and Perversion: Stubbornness, obstinacy, willfulness, 
unwillingness to change even when reason and argument would 
require it. 

To Cultivate: To cultivate and increase this faculty, ever 
remember that it is a necessity to success in all efforts, and 
therefore you should persevere and give nothing up until it is 
completed. Be more positive and accustom yourself to say : "I 
know or I will," instead of " I think, reckon, or guess." Allow no 
obstacles, be they great or small, to turn you from the end you 
aim at. Strive and encourage a mind and will of your own, and 
never allow yourself to be persuaded contrary to your better 
judgment. Steadily and continuously resist temptations, and 
remember that those who persevere and hold out to the end alone 
are crowned. Especially never yield in the least where right is 
concerned. Moral decision is a virtue of the highest order. 

To Restrain : Try and realize the fact — and in your daily 
and hourly intercouse with your fellow-men never forget the fact — 
that you are too obstinate, persistent, and mulishly stubborn. 
Endeavor to see your error of character in this direction, and 
ever endeavor to remedy it. You should especially endeavor not 
to decide on any question at issue until you are sure you are right. 
You should ever hold yourself open to conviction and correction, 
and remember that your excessive Firmness is liable to so blind 
your intellect and better judgment that you cannot possibly see 
the full force of evidence brought against you, and that you are 
too hard to convince, too inflexible, etc. The needless losses 
and humiliations to which obstinacy and an unreasonable per- 
sistence in a line of conduct proved to be wrong or impractical 
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you are tempted to be willful and stubborn. In short, you should 
subject your excessive or misdirected Firmness to your reason, 
prudence, justice, and other faculties. 

SPECIES III — MORAL AND CONFORMING FACULTIES. 

These faculties create the moral or ethical feelings and emotions 
which humanize and elevate the nature of man. They produce a 
disposition to submit, oblige, sympathize, hope and believe. 
They are related to society in general, producing conformity to 
its requirements in opposition to selfishness, clannishness and 
self-will. 

XIX. EQUITABLENESS OR JUSTICE. 

Definition : Impulse to be impartial and just ; rectitude of 
purpose, love of right and truth ; sense of duty. This faculty 
impels us to be fair and square in business and other transactions. 
It only gives the disposition to be just, but not the ability to 
ascertain what constitutes right and wrong. This depends upon 
the intellectual faculties; neither does this faculty alone " pro- 
duce honesty." Honesty and ethical conduct generally is the 
result of a proper balance of the moral and other mental faculties 
and proper moral training and education. 

Deficiency: Lack of sense of justice, indifference to right and 
wrong. When this faculty is very weak, the individual decides 
questions according to prejudice, friendship and self-interest, 
instead of the rules of truth and justice. 

Excess and Perversion : Undue and excessive censure of 
others ; self-condemnation. 

To Cultivate : Always ask yourself what is right or wrong 
and adhere closely to the former and avoid the latter ; make 
everything a matter of principle, and do just as nearly right as 
you know how in everything. A constant effort to keep the 
sense of right and wrong uppermost in our minds in all cur 
transactions and to make everything subservient to justice will 
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Vo Restrain ; Remember that you arc too exacting, thai you 
often think you see Faults where there are none, that von carry 
duty and right to a needless extreme, that you are too condem- 
natory and need to cultivate a more lenient, forbearing and for- 
giving spirit 

XX. HOPEFULNESS. 

Definition: Expectation, anticipation, tendency of mind to 
contemplate the future with bright expectations of happiness and 
success. It inspires cheerful, rosy views of life, dispelling doubt 
and fear of failure ; it enables one to meet disappointments and 
discouragements and bear them with patience. When this faculty 
is very strong it gives a cheerful, happy, hoping, castle-building, 
" good-time coming " disposition, a gladsome, merry heart, a soul 
alive with high expectation, and makes its possessor look on the 
bright side of things. The faculties of Cautiousness, Combative- 
ness and Self-Esteem materially affect the activity and power of 
this feeling. 

Deficiency: A down-in-the-mouth, desponding, deploring, 
hopeless, melancholy, and gloomy state of mind. 

Excess and Perversion : Undue expectancy, tendency to 
magnify every advantage. 

To Cultivate : This faculty, when strong, spurs on -to effort, 
and therefore contributes to success — for those who expect but 
little, attempt and accomplish but little. Hence it should be the 
aim of all to cultivate and encourage its due development. Dis- 
couragements should never for a moment be allowed to depress 
you: but go on, renew the effort, and "hope on — hope ever." 
Never, when failure crosses your plans and purposes, supinely lie 
there, but bestir yourself, search out the cause, and again hope- 
fully and joyfully resume the struggle. " Never give up the 
ship. 5 ' If it storms to-day, to-morrow is the more likely to be 
fair. And when troubles lower and difficulties thicken, the true 
man will outride the storm by remembering that "the darkest 



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hour is just before day," and that his lot, compared with many 
others, is quite comfortable. Remember that the exercise of this 
faculty redoubles all your faculties, and enables you to enjoy 
them twice — in anticipation as well as fruition — while gloomy 
forebodings blight present pleasure as well as blast all the delights 
of expectation. In all your troubles cultivate a cheerful, happy, 
hopeful disposition ; endeavor to expect more than you do ; calcu- 
late all the chances for and none against you. Dwell on and 
recount all that has been favorable to you, and avoid thinking or 
talking of that which has been unfavorable. Bear in mind, par- 
ticularly, that those with a good endowment of this faculty would 
look upon the same prospects very differently — that you behold 
them through diminishing and dark-shaded glasses, and hence 
should make due allowance. Lively, youthful society, and the 
companionship of those who are cheerful and buoyant, has a 
tendency to promote Hope and develope the faculty in those 
who are naturally too easily discouraged and apt to look on the 
dark side of things. 

To Restrain : When relatively too strong it renders its 
possessor chimerical and speculative, and liable to lose all 
by attempting more than can be accomplished. You should en- 
deavor to offset excessive expectation by intellect. Dock off half 
or two-thirds from what you really expect to obtain, for this is all 
you may reasonably calculate upon. Say to yourself : " My hope so 
far exceeds realities, that I shall not get half what I expect," and 
calculate accordingly. Go more slowly and surely. Do not try 
so many experiments, or enter upon so many schemes. Build 
fewer air-castles. Be content in the present, and do not hope so 
much for the future. Ever bear in mind that you are constitu- 
tionally inclined to overrate every prospect and to underrate every 
difficulty. 

XXI. VENERATION OR SUBMISSIVENESS. 
Definition : Reverence, deference, devotion, obedience, res- 
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reverence in general, for whatever seems great and good and 
superior to us, and whatever we are brought up to consider great 
and good and worth}- of respect and honor ; but it does not 
point out the beings or things that are worthy of respect, nor the 
manner of manifesting it. This is determined by the capacity of 
the intellect to form correct judgment, by education, habit, cus- 
tom and other circumstances ; it may be directed to rank, titles, 
wealth, particular creeds and customs, laws and institutions. It 
gives respect for old age and superior persons and powers, in- 
cluding those supernatural powers whose existence is believed in- 
It forms an essential ingredient in religious devotion ; it prompts 
to filial piety in children ; it respects power and authority and 
leads to obedience ; it tends to conserve old institutions, holds to 
ancient opinions, creeds and customs, that may have nothing but 
antiquity to recommend them. When Veneration is strong and 
Self-Esteem weak, it produces a humble disposition ; Veneration is 
the source of true politeness and is one of the principal religious 
emotions. 

Deficiency : Want of reverence and respect. When this 
faculty is weak in an individual and Firmness and Self-Esteem, 
strong, he is apt to be stubborn, unsubmissive and self-willed, it 
also gives rise to an unceremonious bluntness, want of respect- 
fulness in manner, and a tendency to treat superiors with undue 
familiarity. 

Excess and Perversion : Slavish deference to rank, hero- 
worship, idolatry, fanaticism, bigotry, religious intolerance. 

To Cultivate : Associate with persons religiously disposed, 
especially those whose character is such as to command great 
respect, along with attendance on religious worship and daily 
family devotions. Cultivate respect for superiors and every true 
man and woman and every good cause. 

To Restrain: Self-Esteem should be cultivated, the mind 
withdrawn from the constant contemplation of subjects on which 
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XXII. CREDENCIVENESS OR FAITH (Marvellousness). 

Definition : Faith, trust, belief, disposition to believe what 
is not proved, to act on the testimony of others and to believe the 
assertions of others without enquiring into the evidence. It is 
the basis of Faith in revealed religions, belief in the immortal 
and invisible ; it longs for the mysterious, wonderful and extra- 
ordinary. It is the opposite to doubt and suspicion and assumes 
a thing to be true ; it also gives a tendency to magnify and ex- 
aggerate. 

Deficiency : Skepticism, incredulity, lack of faith ; with strong 
Combativeness it leads to contradiction and facetious opposition. 

Excess and Perversion : Credulity, superstition, love of the 
marvellous, tendency to put too much trust and confidence in 
others. 

To Cultivate : Remember that there are a great many things 
not capable of being proven by reason, that are nevertheless true, 
and keep the mind open to new truths. 

To Restrain : Don't believe everything put before you ; study 
the practicalities and realities of this life, and rely more upon your 
reason as guided by your experience. 

XXIII. BENEVOLENCE. 

Definition: Desire to do good. It tends to produce amiable- 
ness, gentleness, and mildness of manner, an obliging disposition, 
and leads to the fulfilment of the great commandment, " Love thy 
neighbor as thyself ; " it looks charitably upon the shortcomings 
of others. It is the basis of philanthropy and the love of humanity 
in general. It is opposed to sectarianism, clannishness and ex- 
clusiveness in society. This faculty, it should be remembered, 
differs materially from Adhesiveness ; Adhesiveness is more 
gregarious in its nature and is directed towards special individuals, 
it gives the desire to form friends and acquaintances, and gives 
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the Other hand, gives good-will towards the whole human race 
ami is gratified when they are happy. It practically say£: "The 
world is my country and to do good is my religion. " The active 
expression o\ this faculty is seen in the asylums foi the poor and 

the unfortunate, hospitals, charity-schools, retreats, etc., which 
are to he found everywhere in civilized society. But its noblest 
deeds are often done where no eye but God's can see them. 

Deficiency : Indifference to the wants of others, lack of kind- 
ness and sympathy. 

Excess and Perversion: Imprudent liberality, ill-bestowed 

charity. 

To Cultivate: To cultivate this faculty, you should always 
try to be more generous and less selfish, always remembering that 
the giver is even more blessed than the receiver. The right ex- 
ercise of this faculty, in the very nature of things, renders its 
possessor happy, while selfishness interdicts one of the most 
exalted enjoyments of our being, as those who are the least selfish 
are the most happy. Hence, though all our weak faculties should 
be cultivated, Benevolence, more than any other, should be in 
constant action. 

To Restrain is hardly necessary and only when it is misdirected. 
It is not required that you beggar yourself and family by lending, 
endorsing, or yielding to sympathy in opposition to judgment. 
Remember that those who solicit help most urgently too often 
deserve it least. Whenever you give, give judiciously and know- 
ingly. Never endorse for any person, or under any consideration. 
It is preferable to give outright, if you have a surplus, lending 
only what you can afford to lose. Give and do less freely than 
you naturally incline, strive to govern this faculty by intellect, 
and be just before you are generous. 

XXIV. IMITATIVKNKSS. 

Definition: Disposition to imitate, to do as others do"; it 
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and bad, as well as what is useful, wise, noble and good ; it sim- 
ply copies without determining the nature and value of what it 
copies, this being the duty of other faculties. Imitativeness is one 
of the chief channels by which we obtain knowledge and benefit 
by surrounding influences. It is necessary in learning to talk, in 
copying the habits, fashions, and manners of society, etc. Imi- 
tativeness is a powerful social element as well as an important 
moral quality, as most of our work is learned by imitation. Those 
who have this faculty strong can readily adapt themselves to the 
feelings, actions and situations of those they come in contact with. 
" Imitativeness is intimately connected with and is a natural 
auxiliary of Benevolence. It is the most powerful of the con- 
forming faculties, because its action is involuntary as well as 
voluntary." — Hoffman. This faculty is very necessary to actors, 
orators, and authors, as it enables them to temporarily forget 
themselves and "enter into " the feelings of an imaginery char- 
acter ; for this reason it has been called the theatrical or dramatic 
faculty. It is also essential to painters, sculptors, designers and 
mechanics. But it should be remembered that Imitativeness 
does not give the ability to copy works of art or mechanism, to 
do this the perceptive faculties and Constructiveness are 
necessary. The function of Imitativeness is incorrectly analyzed 
in most phrenological works. It is somewhat remarkable that 
Herbert Spencer (at that time a student of phrenology) and 
Hudson Lowe of England, and Stanley J. Grimes of America, 
were the first to interpret the function of this faculty correctly, 
they did this about the same time and unknown to each other. 

Deficiency : Oddity, eccentricity, lack of adaptability, in- 
dividuality of character. 

Excess and Perversion : Servile imitation, buffoonery. 

To Cultivate: This faculty, when rightly cultivated, tends to 
general progress and enjoyment and therefore should be 
assiduously cultivated. You should imitate whatever in others 
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but you should ever earnestly strive against copying the vices of 
mankind. Manners, expressions, sentiments, ideas, opinions, and 
everything that in the copying will develop a higher culture, you 
should copy. A very powerful aid in the cultivation of this faculty 
ood example. Be careful then to select such companions as 
possess those qualities you would like to and ought to imitate. 

To RESTRAIN: Maintain more of your own personality in 
thought and character, and be less of a parrot and echo of other 
people's individualities and cultivate originality. 

XXV. SUAVITIVENESS. 

Definition: Affability, blandness, pleasantness, amiability, 
smoothness of manner, piiableness of disposition. It imparts the 
ability to make one's self acceptable to others, and to adopt a 
persuasive and conciliatory mode of address and pleasant manners. 

Deficiency: Inability to make one's self agreeable. 

Excess and Perversion: Blarney, flattery, affectation. 

To Cultivate : Remember that manner is often quite an im- 
portant matter, and that men will often swallow bitter doses of 
truth if expressed in a sweet, acceptable manner ; therefore you 
should study and constantly practice the art of politeness and 
pleasing, by acting in such a way as to make yourself, so far as 
possible, agreeable in all you say and do to those around, you. 

Note: — Suavitiveness can hardly be called a primitive faculty 
of the mind, and there is certainly little or no evidence that there 
is a special organ or centre of agreeableness or suavitiveness, 
notwithstanding the claims of its discoverer, Mr. L. N. Fowler. 
It is my opinion that the mental quality corresponding with 
Agreeableness is a special mode of action of the faculties of 
Benevolence and Imitativeness, particularly of Imitativeness, 
aided by Hope and Approbativeness. There is no denying 
that the region of the brain marked by L. N. Fowler, Agree- 
ableness. contributes to amiability and suavity of manner, 
but no case has been out in favor of a special faculty and organ 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 51 

of Agreeableness. While I deny both faculty and organ of 
Agreeableness, I retain the mental condition termed Agreeable- 
ness on the list of mental faculties and powers, along with 
Continuitiveness and Intuition (Human Nature), of which I 
hold views similar to those expressed regarding Agreeableness. 

ORDER II. INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES. 

These faculties have to do exclusively with objects and things, 
their physical qualities and abstract relations. They create a 
desire for information and furnish the ability to acquire knowledge 
in general, take cognizance of facts and conditions and remember 
and reason from them. 

GENUS L — PERCEPTIVE FACULTIES. 

These faculties perceive natural objects and their physical 
qualities, together with some of their relations. They constitute 
the direct medium of communication between the other faculties 
and the material world and convey to the mind all the physical 
information it is capable of acquiring. 

XXVI. OBSERVATION (Individuality). 

Definition : The great notice-taker, prompts to minute obser- 
vation ; desire to see and examine; talent and aptitude for observ- 
ing things minutely. This faculty is indispensable to the study 
of the physical sciences, to travelers, artists, mechanics, etc. 

Deficiency: Dullness of observation, indisposition to notice 
natural objects. 

Excess and Perversion : Prying curiosity, inquisitiveness. 

To Cultivate : Look, see, inspect and examine things more 
closely, notice whatever comes within the range of your vision. 
An excellent suggestion for developing this faculty in conjunction 
with Form, Size, Weight, Color, and Eventuality, is with a com- 
panion to walk at an ordinary gait past a shop window containing 
a variety of goods, and looking in while passing. After you have 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

passed it, record with a pencil on paper as full a description as 
possible of all that your observing powers have been able"" to note 
while passing, and then compare notes with your companion. 
Perseverance in this simple exercise will develope a wonderful 
ability for taking in through the door of Observation all that is 
transpiring a round you. Natural history, especially botany, 
anatomy, mineralogy, and chemistry, are departments of know- 
ledge particularly fitted to develope this faculty. It is also exer- 
cised in the study of Phrenology and Physiognomy. 

To Restrain : To restrain is seldom, if ever, necessary. Re- 
flection, may, however, be set as a guard upon Observation when 
it tends to make the individual obtrusive. Reflect upon what you 
see ; be less superficial and more profound. 

XXVII. FORM. 

Definition : Perception, appreciation and recollection of the 
forms of things, ability to remember faces and the outline and 
shape of things. Persons with this faculty strongly marked sel- 
dom forget any one whom they have once seen. It aids in draw- 
ing, copying, sketching and shaping things by the eye ; with the 
aid of Constructiveness and Size it reproduces the forms of persons 
and things, models, patterns, pictures, etc. This faculty is essential 
to portrait painters, mineralogists, physiognomists, engravers, 
botanists, mechanics and all imitative arts. 

Deficiency : Inability to distinguish objects from each other 
by their form ; poor memory of faces. 

Excess and Perversion : Undue sensitiveness to want of 
harmony. 

To Cultivate : Scan the shape of everything you would re- 
member ; study botany, geology, phrenology, physiognomy, and 
all studies which involve configuration. When talking to per* 
sons scan their eyes, nose, mouth, chin and expression, 
especially of the eye, as if you were determined ever afterward to 
remember them, looking at them critically, as a detective looks 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 53 

at a rogue, as if saying to yourself: "I'll know you, my man, 
next time I see you." Practice drawing and everything that 
requires accuracy of delineation. 

XXVIII. SIZE. 

Definition: Cognizance of space. Adapted to the absolute and 
relative magnitude of things ; ability to measure distances by the 
eye, and to judge of length, breadth, height, depth ; to appre- 
ciate proportion and of detecting departures from it; to judge of 
weight by bulk, as cattle, timber, stone, etc. It is essential to 
geometricians, geographers, architects, carpenters, machinists, 
mechanics and artists generally. 

Deficiency: Inability to estimate size and distance. 

To Cultivate : You should constantly exercise your judgment 
on whatever involves the length, breadth, height, and other dimen- 
sions of objects, and then verify observation by measurement. 
Guess at the weight and quantity of things, and otherwise observe 
the suggestions recommended for the cultivation of Form, as they 
involve size and proportion, as well as configuration. 

XXIX. WEIGHT. 

Definition : Intuitive perception and application of the prin- 
ciples of specific gravity ; sense of force or resistance. It gives 
the capacity for balancing, for maintaining an erect position, 
for supporting steadily the centre of gravity, and for judging of 
the perpendicular, to discriminate the gravity and density of 
bodies, and estimate the force necessary to overcome resistance. 
It is strongly marked in all good engravers, engineers, sculptors, 
surgeons, pianists, skaters, billiardists, rifleshots, dancers, acrobats, 
horsemen and practical mechanics generally. 

Deficiency : Inability to judge of the perpendicular or to keep 
the centre of gravity, liability to stumble. 

Excess and Perversion : Attempting hazardous feats of bal- 
ancing in horsemanship, rope-dancing, climbing, etc. 



M THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL EEGIStEIi. 

To Ci i n\ \ii' : Practise horseback riding, skating, climbing, 
shooting, gymnastic teats, balancing, pitching quoits, anything 

that will call this faculty into exercise. 

To Restrain : Cultivate caution and do not attempt dangerous 
feats of climbing and balancing. 

XXX. COLOR. 

Definition: Perception of primary colors and their shadings 
and Mendings and the relations of harmony and discord between 

them. 

Deficiency: inability to distinguish colors; colorblindness. 

Excess and Perversion : Fastidious criticism of tints. 

To Cultivate : You should observe colors and their manifold 
shadings, naming, arranging, and classifying them. Try to appre- 
ciate their beauties, and take pleasure in admiring their richness 
as seen in flowers, birds, paintings, etc. 

XXXI. ORDER. 

Definition : Faculty of noticing the succession and arrange- 
ment of things in nature, in business and in art ; desire to have 
things in their places. Its function is confined to physical arrange- 
ment or order and method in relation to physical objects ; classifica- 
tion, generalization and systematization in science and, philosophy 
depend upon the reflective faculties. 

Deficiency : Disorder, slovenliness and general irregularity. 

Excess and Perversion : Excessive neatness. 

To Cultivate : A due development of Order is absolutely 
necessary to success in the least, as well as the greatest, of life's 
efforts, and therefore, when deficient, it should strenuously and 
continuously be cultivated. To this end you should make it a 
law unto yourself to have a place for everything and everything 
in its place, so that you can, when required, lay your hand upon 
everything you possess whenever wanted, even in the dark. All 
your business concerns you should do by rule and system at the 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 55 

proper place and time ; you should rise in the morning, eat your 
meals, and retire at night at certain hours with clock-work 
regularity. All your engagements should be kept faithfully at 
the time appointed. In your reading and studies, you should so 
arrange them as to give a certain time to each, and closely abide 
by that arrangement. In all the habits, little or great, that govern 
your daily life, you should make especial endeavors to cultivate 
this important faculty. The doing of this will very materially 
assist you in the acquirement of health and happiness — not 
omitting wealth, if that be your aim. 

To Restrain : When there is a morbid action of this faculty, 
you should make an effort to withdraw your mind from the con- 
templation of such matters ; you should not waste your strength 
and worry your life in the little niceties of order ; and you should 
consider how impossible it is to have everything exactly to one's 
mind in this respect, and that you only waste your time and mar 
your temper in the attempt to reduce everything to the regular 
arrangement you love. Avoid becoming " more nice than wise." 

XXXII. CALCULATION. 

This faculty gives the idea of numbers and gives the ability to 
combine numbers, 

Definition: The arithmetical faculty, — the one that adds, 
subtracts, multiplies and divides ; the one that is used in the 
practical application of all arithmetical rules. When it is very 
strong it will perform arithmetical calculations with wonderful 
rapidity. With good Order added, it gi\es book-keeping talent; 
with good reflective faculties added, mathematical ability; with 
good Size and Locality, talent for geometry. 

Deficiency : Lack of arithmetical talent. 

Excess and Perversion : Disposition to count and figure 
everything. 

To Cultivate : The study of arithmetic and algebra, and the 
practice of calculation in its various forms, and especially mental 



TUB PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

computations exercise and develope this faculty, as also the 

habit oi charging the mind with the memory of numbers of 
houses m a street, the pages of a book, etc. 

XXXIII. LOCALITY. 

Definition: Perception of the direction and position of ob- 
jects : the geographical faculty ; ability to find one's way ; to 
remember places ; memory of the location of objects. It also 
gives a desire to see new places, enjoys travel, gives fondness for 
scenery and landscapes, gives desire and talent for geography, 
geology, topography, astronomy, and is necessary to surveyors, 
civil engineers, guides, navigators, generals, travelers, explorers, 
landscape painters, etc. 

1 >fficiency : Poor memory of places. 

To Cultivate: To cultivate you should travel more and stay 
at home less. When traveling, notice as you go along all the ob- 
jects by the way, the landmarks, turns in the road, the points 
of the compass, etc., and charge your memory with them. Study 
geography by maps and traveling. 

To Restrain : A too strong disposition to rove, or a restless 
desire for a continual change of place must be met by the culti- 
vation of Continuity and Firmness, and a resolute determination 
to settle down and establish a permanent home. 

XXXIV. EVENTUALITY. 

Definition : The historical faculty ; memory of facts and 
events, recollection of circumstances, news, occurrences, his- 
torical, scientific, and passing events ; whatever has been seen, 
heard, read, or in any way known. It takes cognizance of 
phenomena, events, actions and movements generally. It is the 
foundation of the talent for relating events, narratives and anec- 
dotes. This faculty is the mind's storehouse, in which is gar- 
nered whatsoever is gathered by the other intellectual faculties, 
particularly the perceptive faculties. 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 57 

Deficiency : Poor memory of events. 

Excess and Perversion : Excessive reading and crowding the 
memory with things that are of no practical use. 

To Cultivate : Read history, newspapers, study mythology, 
and never fail to charge the memory with the events and occur- 
rences related ; make it a point to relate anecdotes on all suitable 
occasions. Some people imagine that it is impossible to improve 
the memory ; this is a mistake. The poorest memory can be very 
improved, but there is no royal road to accomplish this end. The 
two main things to be observed in memory training are : i, 
Attention ; 2, Repetition. Pay close attention to. the subject to 
be remembered, concentrate your mind upon it, will to remember 
it and to make sure that you will not forget it, repeat it again and 
again until the subject is firmly imprinted on your mind. The 
whole philosophy of memory training is this : Whatever is 
thoroughly impressed upon the mind, whether it be consciously 
or unconsciously cannot be easily forgotten. If smoking, drink- 
ing and other bad habits,or ill-health are the cause of poor memory, 
these causes will have to be removed before anything can be 
done to materially improve the memory. 

XXXV. TIME. 

Definition : The chronological faculty. 

The office of this faculty is to recognize the passage of time or 
duration. It also gives the ability to keep time in music and 
dancing, helps the memory with dates, and perceives those minute 
divisions and harmonious relations which constitute rhythm. 

Deficiency : Inability to remember dates and keep time. 

Excess and Perversion : Undue particularity in matters 
relating to time. 

To Cultivate : You should cultivate clock-like regularity in 
all your habits — as in rising, retiring, taking meals, etc. Appro- 
priate particular time to particular things, and deviate from that 
time as seldom as possible. You can also promote the activity of 



TEE PHYSIOGNOMICAL 11E0ISTEK. 

this faculty by the practice of music, dancing, and other rhyth- 
mic exercises. * 

XXXVI. TUNE. 

Definition : Perceives sound and its variations of pitch, kind, 
and quality. The faculty of Tune gives perception of melody, 
the harmony of sounds, and the ability to learn and remember 
tunes ; other faculties are required to compose. Tune is only one 
ingredient in a genius for music. Time is requisite to give a just 
perception for intervals ; Ideality to communicate elevation and 
refinement ; and Secretiveness and Imitativeness produce expres- 
sion ; while Constructiveness, Size, Locality, Weight, and Obser- 
vation are necessary to supply mechanical expertness — qualities 
all indispensable to a successful performer. 

Deficiency: Inability to distinguish or appreciate music. 

Excess and Perversion : Disposition to sing, whistle or play 
at improper times or places. 

Cultivate : Singing, and the practice of vocal and instru- 
mental music, attending concerts, and the constant effort to appre- 
ciate music, will lead to an increased activity and consequent 
development of the faculty of Tune. 

XXXVII. LANGUAGE. 

Definition : Memory of words and the perception and memory 
of sounds, power of expressing thoughts and feeling by means of 
speech. It is the foundation of the talent for acquiring languages, 
and also of writing and speaking, but it requires other qualities 
to make a linguist, writer or speaker. When it is strong and 
active it gives great fluency in the use of language, readiness in 
expressing every shade of thought, ease and gracefulness to 
expression. If very marked, with only moderate general intellect, 
it gives great redundancy and verbosity of language, with few 
ideas, and sometimes no ideas at all. It does not always make 
great talkers, but always gives a free, easy, graceful use of 
language, and a readiness in learning language ; weak language 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 59 

finds difficulty in expressing its thoughts, staggers and stammers 
at words, makes bad selection of words, and often fails in express- 
ing the true idea. Language remembers and makes use of 
words, but does not learn their meaning, in fact it learns and 
remembers words regardless of meaning ; to understand the 
meaning of words depends upon other faculties. 

Deficiency: Lack of verbal expression. 

Excess and Perversion : Verbosity, garrulity, excessive talk- 
ativeness. 

To Cultivate: You should talk and write as fully and as 
eloquently as you can, telling what you have seen, heard, read, or 
done. In speaking, you should, when possible, change clauses 
with a view to improving your sentences ; in writing, erase 
unnecessary and improper words, and choose the very words ex- 
actly expressive of the desired meaning. Throw feeling and ex- 
pression into all you say — into action and expression of counten- 
ance. Study languages and the classics, but especially fluency in 
your mother tongue. Attend debating societies, and anything 
and everything that will help to discipline and exercise this 
faculty. 

To Restrain : When Language is very marked and active, 
and verbosity, garrulity, and circumlocution result, you should 
make a determined and systematic effort to check this tendency, 
by a severe lopping off of redundancies in writing, and a constant 
watchfulness over yourself while speaking. 

XXXVIII. INTUITION. (Human Nature.) 

Definition : Intuitive perception of the character and other 
qualities of individuals. 

Deficiency : Inability to read character intuitively. 
Excess and Perversion : Offensive criticism of character, sus- 
piciousness. 

To Cultivate : Make human nature a study, using Physiog- 



60 THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

nomy and Phrenology as guide's in its prosecution, observe every 
one you meet, and note the expression, tones of voice and-actions* 
and try to read them as you would a book. 

To Restrain : If too suspicious by reason of over active 
Cautiousness, and perverted Intuition, you must cultivate Hope, 
Benevolence and Conscientiousness, and try to take a kinder, 
more lenient, cheerful and just view of your fellow-men. 

Note. Mr. L. N. Fowler claims to have discovered the " organ 
of Human Nature " (here termed Intuition), although a careful 
search of phrenological literature shows that both Dr. J. R. 
Buchanan and Mr. Stanley J. Grimes preceded Mr. Fowler in con- 
necting this faculty with the region of the brain, allot- 
ted by the latter to " Human Nature." In my opinion, 
there is little or no evidence to support the claim that a 
special organ or centre has been discovered (or even 
exists) as the seat of the faculty or mental condition 
termed Human Nature or Intuition. There is no doubt 
that considerable height and breadth of the head at the point cor- 
responding with the location assigned to Human Nature is usually 
accompanied by interest in and a desire to acquire a knowledge of 
human nature, but this is attributable to the faculties of Bene- 
volence and Imitativeness, acting in combination with the reflec 
tive faculties. According to my experience those individuals 
who manifest the characteristics attributed to Human Nature 
or Intuition in a high degree, show a fine quality of brain, great 
sensitiveness to mental and physical conditions, favorable tempera- 
mental conditions, large perceptives and a good development of 
the forehead on the median line from the root of the nose to and 
including the cerebro-psychic centres of Observation, Eventuality, 
and Comparison. 

GENUS II — REFLECTIVE FACULTIES. 

These faculties impart to the human mind an intellectual power 
of a higher order than that given by the perceptive faculties. 
They enable a man to think and reason, to percerve abstract and 






THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 61 

metaphysical relations, and the connection between cause and 
effect. Strongly marked perceptive and moderate reflective 
faculties give great attention to external things; great practicality 
and love of details, remarkable power to pick up knowledge from 
observation, and great educability, but only a moderate share of 
reflective or speculative sagacity. Powerful reflective and 
moderate perceptive faculties give the Socratic, or Baconian 
style of intellect — all speculation with but little practicality or atten- 
tion to practical details. A proportionate state of these two classes 
of powers give a fair average of both perceptive and reflective com- 
prehension, and is the most favorable. 

XXXIX. COMPARISON. 

Definition : The analyzing, criticising, illustrating, classifying 
and comparing faculty; faculty of inductive reasoning. This is 
the faculty of comparing things and ideas, assorting them and 
distinguishing the like from the unlike ; it perceives differences 
and resemblances, analogies and contrasts. It gives tli3 talent 
for classification in science and for illustrating by comparison in 
speech and in literature. It gives birth to allegories, parables, 
metaphors, and other figures of speech. 

Deficiency : Inability to reason by analogy and comparison. 

Excess and Perversion : False conclusions founded on im- 
aginery resemblances; satirical or infelicitous comparisons; ex- 
cessive criticism. 

To Cultivate : Studying logic, mental philosophy, chemistry, 
botany, etc., or the constant exercise of one's analytical powers 
in any branch of study or business, may be made subservient to 
the development of this faculty. 

XL. CAUSALITY. 

Definition : The cause-seeking faculty ; power of perceiving 
and applying the principles of causation ; ability to discover, and 
trace out, the connection and relations existing between causes 



62 THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL HEGISTEH. 

and effects ; to plan and adapt means to ends; to draw conclu- 
sions from given premises; to reason from the known to the un- 
known; desire to know the why and wherefore of things and to 
investigate their laws. Tracing things and events back, step by 
step, to their origin and forward to their consequences. When 
strongly marked in children, it causes them to ask a thousand 
questions — questions which would oftentimes puzzle a philosopher 
to answer. Causality is dependent for facts upon the perceptives, 
and if these are weak, this faculty arrives at erroneous conclusions. 

Deficiency : Weakness of judgment ; inability to plan and 
reason. 

Excess and Perversion : Too much theorizing and impractical 
philosophy. 

To Cultivate: Study philosophy in all its branches, endeavor 
to think of the best ways and means of overcoming difficulties 
and bringing about results. Give yourself up to the influx of new 
ideas, meditate on the laws of nature, and try to trace out the„con- 
nection between observed phenomena and their causes. 

To Restrain: Pivert the mind by strict attention to practical 
affairs, cultivating the perceptives. Become less theoretical and 
more practical. 



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EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES USED IN THIS 

REGISTER. 

The scale for marking the relative strength and activity of the 
different conditions of the body and signs of the faculties of the 
mind in the tables of this register is from i to 5 ; 1 denoting the 
minimum, 5 the maximum of power, 3 standing for par. 

The scale may also be expressed in the following terms : 

1. Denoting small or weak, indicative of decided deficiency or 
lack of power. 

2. Denoting moderate, being more powerful than 1 but still 
below par. 

3. Denoting average (par), wields a fair but not a powerful 
influence. 

4. Denoting full, manifests a good degree of power. 

5. Large, proclaims a powerful function. 

As is perfectly natural, the conditions marked large, control and 
govern those marked below par, and thus largely determine the 
natural character of the individual, the conditions marked at and 
below par, exercise however, a modifying influence on the more 
strongly marked conditions. 

Opposite the name of each faculty or quality taken into account, 
and in the column indicating its relative power, the examiner will 
place a figure, or preferably a dot or dash, to indicate the subject's 
indications regarding that quality of body or mind. For a more 
graphic illustration of the evenness or lack of same of the mental 
and physical make-up of the subject, a continuous line may be 
traced from dot to dot or dash to dash, on the same plan as 
the temperature charts as marked by physicians or the anthro- 
pometric charts used in gymnasiums. 

The printed figures in the squares of the first column of the 
various tables indicate the pages of the book on which will be 
found a complete definition and description of the faculties and 



64 THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

other conditions considered ; the same holds true of the printed 
figures in the squares oi the columns headed " Cultivate^nd Re- 

straifH" Faculties and other conditions requiring cultivation and 
restraint will be found underlined, and by turning to the page of 
the 'hook designated by the underlined figures, the individual for 
whom this register is marked will find explicit advice as to the 
cultivation and restraint of the faculties and other conditions 
requiring regulation. When a faculty or other condition is to be 
cultivated it is best for the individual not to read the advice under 
the caption, To Restrain, but to confine himself to carefully read, 
reflect and act upon the advice given under the head " To Culti- 
vate: " likewise if a faculty or other condition is marked To Res- 
train^ ignore — do not read the advice under the head "To 
Cultivate." 

When a faculty or other organic condition is marked ? instead 
of a dot or dash, it signifies that the examiner is in doubt as to 
the relative power of that quality or condition. 

The person for whom this register is marked should keep in 
mind that evenness in mental and physical development and not 
high marks is the desideratum, at the same time it is perfectly 
true that we cannot have too much of any quality, whether of 
body or mind, whether animal or spiritual, if these qualities are 
properly balanced; but highly marked qualities, if not properly 
balanced, almost always lead to perversion and abuse. 

It cannot be stated too plainly nor too often that all that 
the marks of the various tables of this register show, is the relative 
power of the various conditions, both mental and physical^ 
of tlie person examined, and should never be directly compared 
with the markings of a register of another individual and con- 
elusions drawn from the same. 

To illustrate : An examiner marking registers for two different 
individuals may mark both 5 in Cautiousness, and yet these indi- 
viduals may differ very materially as to the strength of that feeling; 
a direct comparison of the two registers, as regards that faculty or 
sign of faculty, would be unsatisfactory, but a little reflection 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 65 

and study will show that, while both parties are marked 5 in 
Cautiousness, one is marked higher in the signs of the faculties of 
Destructiveness, Combativeness, Firmness, Self-Esteem, or other 
faculties which modify the effect of powerful Cautiousness. 

Another illustration : Two registers may show the signs of the 
faculties of Comparison and Causality marked 5, but the indi- 
viduals for whom these registers are marked may differ a great 
deal in their power to reason, etc. ; an examination of all the 
conditions necessary to reason soundly will show that one in- 
dividual possesses inferior perceptive faculties, or a poor quality of 
brain, while the other will show supeiior observing faculties or a 
superior quality of brain. 

This matter of combinations can only be hinted at in a work 
of this kind. The reader is referred to the larger works recom- 
mended in the advertising pages of this register to obtain a more 
complete knowledge of this important subject. People ignorant 
of the principles of Physiognomy sometimes blame examiners for 
ascribing qualities to persons examined which they have never mani- 
fested ; a knowledge of the modifying influence of other faculties 
and physiological conditions would readily enable them to see that 
the examiner is in reality correct. Thus the signs of the mental quali- 
ties necessary for memorizing events or for musical talent may be 
strongly marked, but abnormal physical conditions, bad habits or 
a poor quality of brain, or a sluggish temperament may have 
prevented or retarded the development of the talents mentioned. 
Then again, an examiner frequently ascribes to a consultant 
talents or other mental characteristics which the latter never 
manifested on account of lack of opportunity or ignorance of his 
natural endowments, and it is one of the objects of an examina- 
tion to show the native power of dormant as well as active mental 
powers. 

For additional information on the subject of Phrenology and 
Physiognomy as presented in this work, the reader is requested 
to carefully peruse the article entitled The Physiognomical 
Register on page 3. 



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v^F~ For a f vill explanation of the tables of this work the reader is 
referred to page 63 



GENERAL 
CONDITIONS 


Page 

of 
Book 


Oulti 
vate 


1 
Weak 

or 
Poor 


2 

Mod- 
erate 


3 
Fair 

or 
par 


4 

Good 

or 

strong 


5 

Very 
Good 


Re- 
strain 


L. Size of Brain- . 


12 
















Balance 

2. between brain 
and body. . . 


13 

















i Quality or 
Texture . . • 


13 














4. Culture 


14 
















Health or 
9m Vital Vigor. 


14 
14 
















6. Vital Tenacity 

















Temperamental 
Conditions . . 


15 














, Osseous 

System 


17 


17 












17 


2 Muscular 

System 


17 


17 












17 


., Abdominal 

System 


18 


18 












18 


j Thoracic 

System 


18 
19 


19 












19 


Cephalic 
System. . . 


20 












20 



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67 



PHYSICAL INDICATIONS OF THE HEAD, 
FACE AND TEMPERAMENT. 





Culti- 
vate 


1 
Poor 


2 
Mod- 
erate 


3 
Fair 


4 
Good 


5 
Very 
Good 


















2. Circulatory Power 














q "THcrpsjtivp Powpr 




















• 




























f\ ¥prvnn«! Svstjpm 

















7. Class of diseases most liable to : 



8. General Health Advice : 



68 FOR A FULL 


EXPLANATION < 


3F THE TABLES 




Names o( 

Faculties or 

Powers 


Page 

of 
Boqk 


Culti- 
vate 


1 


2 


3 

or par 


4 5 Ke ~ 

istrain 


1. Alimentiveness 


22 


22 












22 


2. Vivativeness, 


22 


22 












23 


., Destructive- 
ness .... 


23 


23 












23 


Combative- 
ness 


24 


24 












25 


5. Secretiveness 


25 


26 










j 26 


6. Cautiousness 


27 


27 










|.27 : 


Acquisit- 
iveness 


28 


28 












29 


g Construct- 
iveness 


29 


30 












30 


9. Ideality 


30 


30 












30 


10. Sublimity . • • 


31 


31 














11. Mirthfulness. 


31 


32 












32 


12. Amativeness . 


32 


32 












33 


.o Philoprogen- 
itiveness. . 


33 


34 










, | 34 


14. Adhesiveness 


34 


35 












35 


15. A Inhabitive- 
ness 


36 


36 












36 


Continuitiva- 
15. B ness 


36 


37 












38 


16. Self-Esteem . 


38 


38 












40 


,- Approbative- 
ness 


40 


40 












41 


18. Firmness 


41 


42 












42 


, r) Conscientious- 
ness 


43 


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Names of 

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23. Benevolence . 


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24. Imitativeness 


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25. Suavitiveness 


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26. Observation . 


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52 


27. Form 


52 


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28. Size 


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29. Weight 


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30. Color 


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31. Order 


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55 


32. Calculation.. 


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33. Locality 


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56 


34. Eventuality . 


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35. Time 


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36. Tune 


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37. Language . ... 


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38. Intuition 


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70 THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

SPECIAL 
Physiognomical Indications. 

2^=" Note : — The various features ennumerated below are only to be 
marked, when the signs of character indicated thereby, are strongly 
marked. 

1. Eyes 

2. Eyebrows 

3. Nose 

4. Mouth 

5. Chin 

6. Jaws 

7. Cheeks 

8. Ears 

9. Neck 

10. General Expression 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

BUSINESS ADAPTATION. 



71 



According to the indications of your head, face and temperament you 
will succeed in any of the pursuits underlined in this table, or pursuits 
requiring mental and physical qualities similar to those underlined ; 
you will be all the more successful, if you have a strong liking for the 
occupation indicated and bring all the power of your mental faculties 
to bear upon it, not forgetting to successfully cultivate or restrain those 
mental or physical qualities marked to that effect in the different 
tables. 



Accountant 

Actor 

Amanuensis 

Administrator 

Anatomist 

Appraiser 

Assessor 

Architect 

Assayer 

Astronomer 

Auctioneer 

Author 

Baker 

Banker 

Barber 

Blacksmith 

Botanist 

Bookbinder 

Bookkeeper 

Brewer 

Broker 

Builder 

Butcher 

Butler 



Captain 

Cabinet Maker 

Carpenter 

Carriage Builder 

Cashier 

Chemist 

Clergyman 

Collector 

Commercial Traveller 

Compositor 

Conductor 

Correspondent 

Conveyancer 

Cooper 

Confectioner 

Contractor 

Cook 

Critic of Art or Books 

Dairyman 

Decorator 

Dentist 

Designer 

Detective 

Draftsman 



Dramatist 
Dressmaker 
Druggist 
Editor 
Electrician 
Elocutionist 
Engineer, Civil 

" Mechanical 

Engraver 
Explorer 
Express Business 
Farmer 
Florist 
Finisher 
Financier 
Fisherman 
Gardner 
Geologist 
Gasfltter 
Glassblower 
Governess 
Gunsmith 
Harness maker 
Hatter 



n THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

BUSINESS ADAPTATION— Continued. 



Historian 

Housekeeper 

II ot el keeper 

Importer 

Inventor 

Inspector 

Insurance Agent 

Janitor 

Jeweler 

Judge 

Lawyer, Patent 

Court Work 
'• Office Work 
Lecturer 
Librarian 
Linguist 
Lithographer 
Livery Keeper 
Locksmith 
Lumberman 
Manager 
Manufacturer 
Mathematician 
Matron 
Machinist 
Mason 
Merchant 
Wholesale 
Retail 

Dry and Fancy Goods 
Live Stock 
Grain, Groceries or 
Provisions 
Coal and Lumber 
Commission 
Hardware 
Books and Stationery 



Pictures 

Clothing 

Furniture 

Sporting Goods 

Miller 

Milliner 

Missionary 

Miner 

Mineralogist 

Musician, Instrumental 

Vocal 
Moulder 
Navigator 
Naval 
Orator 
Overseer 
Painter, House 

kt Scenic 
Sign 

" Landscape 
Portrait 
Paperhanger 
Policeman 
Penmanj 
Photographer 
Photo-Engraver 
Physiognomist 
Physician 
Poet 

Politican 

Prest. of Corporation 
Promoter 
Pawnbroker 
Patternmaker 
Plumber 
Railroad Business 



Real Estate 

Reporter 

Restaurant 

Sailor 

Salesman, Wholesale 

Retail 
Sculptor 
Secretary 

Stained Glass Worker 
Stonecutter 
Seamstress 
Shipping Clerk 
Shoemaker 
Soldier 
Speculator 
Statesman 
Stenographer 
Steward 
Stockraiser 
Supt. Public Works 

" of Men 
Supervisor 
Surgeon 
Telegrapher 
Tailor 
Tanner 
Teacher 
Teamster 
Tinsmith 
Traveller 
Turner 
Typewriter 
Undertaker 
Upholsterer 
Waiter 
Watchmaker 
Watchman 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 73 



ADAPTATION IN MARRIAGE. 

The subject of mental and physical adaptation between a man 
and woman contemplating matrimony is a matter of the greatest 
importance, it riot only concerns the couple in question, but un- 
born generations as well. No one who has studied this question 
in the light which Phrenology, Physiognomy and Physiology 
throw upon it, will question for a moment that a competent 
phrenologist and physiognomist can give invaluable and practical 
advice in the matter in question, but in order to receive the full 
benefit of the application of physiognomical science to marriage 
adaptation, the young man or young woman should not wait until 
they "fall in love," as it is called, as when that stage has been 
reached very few young people are disposed to obey the dictates 
of philosophy and physiology, even in case of absolute mental and 
physical ill-adaptation. The proper time to derive the greatest bene- 
fit from the application of physiognomical principles is for every 
young man and woman to have a physiognomical reading before 
they have formed an attachment and find out what mental and physi- 
cal qualities they should look for in a partner for life and the reasons 
for same, they should then endeavor to woo and win a companion 
possessing the mental and physical attributes recommended by the 
examiner. To make doubly sure and to prevent mutual as well 
as self-deception, regarding character, etc., so common in ordr 
nary courtships, it is advisable that a young couple contemplat- 
ing marriage should have another physiognomical reading. Such 
a reading will not only determine their adaptation, but it will 
'reveal each other's real mental characteristics as well. 
For marriage adaptation tables see pages 74-5. 



7-J 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 



EXPLANATION OF THE MARRIAGE ADAPTATION 

TABLES. 

The person for whom this register is marked should choose a 
companion 'having the mental and physical qualities indicated 
by the markings of the tables. 

If this is impractical or for good reasons impossible, one ap- 
proaching it as much as possible should be chosen. 

Conditions not marked may be considered immaterial, and 
the subject for whom these tables are marked may allow his 
own tastes to guide him or her in that particular. 

A. PHYSICAL ADAPTATION. 

SCALE USED, 1 TO 3. 



Height 


Short. 


Medium. 


Tall. 






Build 


Slender. 


Medium. 


Plump. 




Bony System 


Moderate . 


Medium. 




(for description of this system 
see page 17) 


Strong. 


Muscular System (page 17) 


Moderate. 


Medium. 


Strong. 


Thoracic System (page 18) 


Moderate. 


Medium. 


Strong. 


Abdominal System (page 18) . . 


Moderate. 


Medium. 


Strong. 


Brain System (page 19) 


Moderate. 


Medium. 


Strong 


Neck 


Short and 
Thick. 


Medium. 


Long and 




Slender. 


Features 


Sharp. 


Medium 
Fullness. 


Round. 


— . , 



SPECIAL SUGGESTIONS 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 75 

B. MENTAL ADAPTATION. 



SCALE USED, 1 TO 3, 




Weak. 


Average. 


Strong. 






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MEMORANDA: 

(For recording measurements of the head and face, making special re- 
marks on particular conditions indicated by the mental or physical , 
organization of the subject. 

This and the tallowing pages may also be utilized for a brief written 
description of character. 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 

MEMORANDA : 



riiK nirsioG.xoMKAi. i;E<;isrEn, 
MEMORANDA : 



THE PHYSIOGNOMICAL REGISTER. 79 

MEMORANDA : 



80 



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The rogue and fool by tits is fair and wise ; 
And even the best, by fits, what they despise. 
'Tis but by parts we follow good or ill : 
For, vice or virtue, self directs it still. — Alexander Pope. 

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